Article ; Online: The impact of test-taking strategies on eye movements of elementary students during reading comprehension assessment.
School psychology (Washington, D.C.)
2022 Volume 38, Issue 1, Page(s) 59–66
Abstract: Teachers often encourage students to use test-taking strategies during reading comprehension assessments, but these strategies are not always evidence-based. One common strategy involves teaching students to read the questions before reading an ... ...
Abstract | Teachers often encourage students to use test-taking strategies during reading comprehension assessments, but these strategies are not always evidence-based. One common strategy involves teaching students to read the questions before reading an associated passage. Research findings comparing the passage-first (PF) and questions-first (QF) strategies are mixed. The present study employed eye-tracking technology to record 84 third- and fourth-grade participants' eye movements (EMs) as they read a passage and responded to multiple-choice (MC) questions using PF and QF strategies in a within-subject design. Although there were no significant differences between groups in accuracy on MC questions, EM measures revealed that the PF condition was superior to the QF condition for elementary readers in terms of efficiency in reading and responding to questions. These findings suggest that the PF strategy supports a more comprehensive understanding of the text. Ultimately, within the PF condition, students required less time to obtain the same accuracy outcomes they attained when reading in the QF condition. School psychologists can improve reading comprehension instruction by encouraging the importance of teaching children to gain meaning from the text rather than search the passage for answers to MC questions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved). |
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MeSH term(s) | Humans ; Child ; Reading ; Comprehension ; Test Taking Skills ; Eye Movements ; Students |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2022-12-15 |
Publishing country | United States |
Document type | Journal Article |
ISSN | 2578-4226 |
ISSN (online) | 2578-4226 |
DOI | 10.1037/spq0000526 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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