The Modern Reader
This device is commonly used today for reading instead of physical books.
What is a Kindle (or tablet)?
This reading strategy is used to get a quick idea of a text's topic.
What is reading quickly (or skimming)?
True or False: A reading test should include tasks that are meaningful to the test-taker.
What is True?
This type of task asks a test-taker to choose the correct answer from multiple options.
What is multiple-choice?
Test instructions should be ________ so that test-takers know what to do.
What is clear?
True or False: People read less today than in the past.
What is False?
When you read to understand every detail, this is called _______ reading.
What is careful reading?
To test if someone can read a timetable, they should be given a task that ________.
What is simulates finding a time to travel?
A task where test-takers read text and summarize it is called ______.
What is reading into writing?
Test-takers need to know how their ______ will be scored.
What are answers?
Besides books, name two types of screens people use to read from today.
What are computers and phones?
The type of reading depends on the ________ for reading.
What is purpose?
Reading tests should be as ________ as possible to fit their purpose.
What is authentic?
This type of question involves understanding information in graphic form.
What is labeling a chart or completing a table?
If a test requires short answers, markers need to agree on these possible ________.
What are acceptable responses?
Even though reading has shifted to screens, the basic process of making meaning from text has remained the _______.
What is the same?
To find specific information quickly, a reader might choose to _______.
What is scan?
Test content should avoid this to ensure it’s fair to all test-takers.
What is cultural bias?
A task where test-takers fill in missing words is called ______.
What is a cloze task?
When scoring longer written answers, markers must decide if they should deduct points for mistakes in ______.
What are grammar, spelling, and punctuation?
Reading from screens instead of books is different but still involves this skill daily.
What is reading?
Our brains work hard to make sense of the ______ we see when we read.
What are words?
Reading tests should allow test-takers to get information only from the text, not from their own ________.
What is background knowledge?
One advantage of having a range of task types in reading tests is that each type has different ________ and disadvantages.
What are advantages?
A reading test’s value depends on the ______ of the assessment process.
What is meaningfulness?