Assessing reading

Assessing reading

1. INTERACTIVE

   • Descriptions from longer tests, directions, recipes
   • Identify features (lexical, grammatical, symbolic and discourse)
   • Types of interactive reading tasks
     • Information transfer
       • Comprehend charts, maps, graphs, calendars or diagrams
       • Convert non verbal input into comprehensible understanding
     • Cloze tasks
       • ability to fill in gaps in an incomplete imagine (visual, auditory or cognitive)
       • Supply (from background schemata) omitted details
     • Short-answer tasks
       • Reading passage is presented and the test takers read questions and answer in a written form
     • Editing (longer texts)
       • Stimulate proof reading one's own essay
       • It is imperative to find and correct errors
     • Scanning
       • The readers find relevant information in a text
       • Presented with a text (chart or graph)
     • Ordering tasks
       • Students receive strips of paper and assembling them into a story
       • Include measure of comprehension of nonverbal media
     • IR + comprehension questions
       • Read a passage and answer some questions
       • The passage cover some features such as vocabulary and contexts, grammatical features and supporting ideas

2. SELECTIVE

   • The purpose is to tap into a learner’s global understanding of a text.
   • Types of selective reading tasks
     • Skimming
       • Coverage of reading matter to determine its gist or main idea
       • To give a sense of the topic and purpose of a text
     • Summarizing and responding
       • Write a summary asking to response a text
     • Note taking and outlining
       • Evaluation of a process Note taking and outlining
       • Difficulty the conditions and time frame
       • Retaining information through marginal notes