WorksheetsKoda- Individual Differences
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
The IQ based predictions were replaced because...
they were out-of-fashion.
IQ levels were miscalculated.
reading and subject matter learning were integrated in the tests.
the texts chosen were suitable for higher IQ's.
Insofar as the potential causal factors can be gathered from similar reading studies,......
their successful identification can lead to upcoming hypothesis testing.
strong readers can benefit from them.
the testing of hypothesis may be misleading.
the reliability of the reading test would be lower.
Why do we need to study individual differences? Select the right options.
The notion of "successful reading" can be examined closely.
The difference between technical and non-technical texts can be examined.
The field of reading theory and practice can benefit from the findings.
The difference between strong and weak reader can be examined.
Longer eye-fixation duration causes poor comprehension.
TRUE
FALSE
Research goals have evolved from inquisitive explorations to experimental studies of hypothesis-testing.
TRUE
FALSE
Backtracking is more of a skilled-reader habit.
TRUE
FALSE
Differences in eye-movement reveal perceptual capacity rather than linguistic-information extraction.
TRUE
FALSE
Efficiency in lexical access is related to...........
comprehension
aptitude
reading speed
linguistic information
........... is more durable than any other form of representation in the working memory.
Comprehension
Lexical processing
Reading rate information
Phonologically encoded information
_______ benefit from contextual clues more than ________.
Poor readers / good readers
Good readers / poor readers
Select the constructs that may be related to the relation between vocabulary and comprehension.
Background knowledge
Reading speed
Reasoning skill
Inference ability
In detecting and isolating significant text ideas, ________ plays a great role in comprehension and retention.
text-structure knowledge
background knowledge
Select the ones that are true about the component skills approach.
The aim is to identify particular individual differences in text-information processing.
It cannot generate the empirical data for theory construction.
It combines distinct reading operations.
It allows us to explore the functional interdependence among different reading operations.
Select the lower level processing tasks that were used by Nassaji & Geva (1999).
Letter naming
Ortographic legality judgement
Sentence verification
Syntactic violation detection
Orthographic knowledge is more than identifying letter names.
TRUE
FALSE
Which one is likely to be the dominant factor distinguishing good readers from poor readers?
comprehension
personality type
working memory capacity
reading speed
Select the actions that are in the scope of "cognitive strategies" for reading.
attention
behavior
communication
suspension
Paris et al. (1991) advocated that _______ are used unconsciously whereas _________ are used consciously.
strategies / skills
skills / strategies
Reading experts argue that _______ is the dominant metacognitive capability distinguishing good readers from poor readers.
speed balancing
comprehension monitoring
backtracking
eye fixation duration
Which one is NOT correct about verbal protocol analysis?
We can examine the correlation between perceptions and actions.
We can study the connections among strategies.
The affective dimension of reader response can be examined.
Motor skills of the reader can be identified.
