The purpose of designing the assessment is to drive curriculum development and learning,and to promote students’inference making ability when reading at the college level.The focal construct of this study is inferenc...The purpose of designing the assessment is to drive curriculum development and learning,and to promote students’inference making ability when reading at the college level.The focal construct of this study is inference making based on text information and the reader’s background knowledge.Therefore,reading in the assignment means reading between the lines to learn the implied underlying meaning.This study applies a principled,theory-based approach to develop reading assessment.Test specification is made at the end.展开更多
文摘The purpose of designing the assessment is to drive curriculum development and learning,and to promote students’inference making ability when reading at the college level.The focal construct of this study is inference making based on text information and the reader’s background knowledge.Therefore,reading in the assignment means reading between the lines to learn the implied underlying meaning.This study applies a principled,theory-based approach to develop reading assessment.Test specification is made at the end.
