The Prediction of TOEFL Reading Comprehension Item Difficulty for Expository Prose Passages for Three Item Types [electronic resource] : Main Idea, Inference, and Supporting Idea Items / Roy Freedle and Irene Kostin.

Prediction of the difficulty (equated delta) of a large sample (n=213) of reading comprehension items from the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) was studied using main idea, inference, and supporting statement items. A related purpose was to examine whether text and text-related variable...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Freedle, Roy
Corporate Author:	Educational Testing Service
Other Authors:	Kostin, Irene
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1993.
Subjects:	Construct Validity. Difficulty Level. Multiple Choice Tests. Prediction. Reading Comprehension. Reading Tests. Second Language Learning. Test Format. Test Items.