Context-Independence of Items Designed to Measure the Ability to Derive the Meanings of Words from their Context
- 1 December 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Educational and Psychological Measurement
- Vol. 36 (4) , 919-924
- https://doi.org/10.1177/001316447603600415
Abstract
Items designed to measure the ability to derive the meanings of words from context (vocabulary-in-context items) were drawn from seven published reading tests. The items were administered to junior-and senior-high school students without the context. The percentage of students who marked the individual items correctly varied from zero to 91. In response to the average item 14% more students marked it correctly than would be expected to do so on the basis of random guessing alone. Only one published test had vocabulary-in-context items that were consistently context-dependent.Keywords
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