Felipe, A. and Villanueva, J. de D. (2018). Design and validation of a pilot test to assess
university students’ reading competence, Investigaciones Sobre Lectura, 10, 95-117.
Number 10
2018 December
Design and validation of a pilot test to assess
university students’ reading competence
Andrea Felipe
Morales
Universidad de Málaga
Juan de Dios Villanueva Roa
Universidad de Granada
Pag. 95 to 117
Keywords
Reading, reading test
university students
Abstract:
This
paper
presents
a
pilot
test
designed
to
assess
university
students’ reading competence. As yet
there
competence
in
Spanish
for
this
population. After a brief introduction
to
the
theoretical
framework
underlying
this
test
–
Reading
Competence
Test
for
University
Students (Felipe, Barrios, Villanueva
y Caldevilla)–, the test is des-cribed.
It
authentic
three were written for the purpose of
the
according to the text types
2015: 2 instructive, 2
narrative,
2
expository,
2
argumentative,
2
descriptive
y
2
transactional texts; additionally, 6 are
continuous
and
6,
texts. The 36 items that comprise the
test
to the PISA-2015 reading framework
with
aspect categories that define the PISA
reading
and retrieve, integrate and
Received: 01-07-2018
Accepted: 30-09-2018
interpret, and reflect and evaluate). The
test validation process is then described;
it
evaluation
content
from
the
areas
of
Language
and
Literature
Didactics,
Hispanic
Philology,
Linguistics
and
Communication. Results obtained from
65
primary
and
also
evaluation
takers’ perceptions of issues concerning
the test (e.g., perceived difficult-y). The
paper
concludes
with
the
proposed
changes to the test in light of the process
of validation.
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