Abstract
Reading comprehension has an important place in lifelong learning. It is an interactive process between the reader and the text. Students need reading comprehension skills at all educational levels and for all school subjects. Determining the level of students' reading comprehension skills is the subject of testing and evaluation. Tests used to measure students' success are expected to provide accurate and reliable information. Therefore, the aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable reading comprehension test appropriate for fourth grade reading comprehension learning outcomes. The participants in the study were 245 fourth graders from three schools at low, middle and high socioeconomic levels in the central district of Kars. Items with discrimination indices below .30 and those that did not differ by 27% in the upper and lower groups on the independent groups t-test were excluded from the test. The difficulty indices of the test items ranged from .37 to .79. The KR-20 reliability coefficient was found to be 0.83, indicating that this multiple choice reading comprehension test is valid and reliable.
Highlights
Reading, a required skill in academic and social life, is a basic language skill
The aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable reading comprehension test appropriate for fourth grade reading comprehension learning outcomes
This study aimed to develop a valid and reliable achievement test appropriate for fourth grade reading comprehension learning acquisitions
Summary
A required skill in academic and social life, is a basic language skill. there are many definitions of reading, Akyol’s (2013) definition: “the process of establishing meaning in a suitable environment using appropriate information based on effective communication between the author and the reader in accordance with the appropriate aim and method,” may be the most descriptive. Çeliktürk Sezgin and Akyol (2018) conducted a study to understand the effect of a concept-based reading method on the reading motivation and comprehension of 26 primary school students in a Turkish course. Çetinkaya and Bayat (2016) developed a reliable and valid test for measuring the reading comprehension of secondary school students. Altunkaya (2016) developed the Turkish as a Foreign Language Reading Comprehension Test to measure the reading comprehension of students with B level proficiency and showed that it was reliable and valid. The aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable reading comprehension test appropriate for fourth grade reading comprehension learning outcomes
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