Can a Suit of Armor Conduct Electricity? A New Dataset for Open Book Question Answering
We present a new kind of question answering dataset, OpenBookQA, modeled after open book exams for assessing human understanding of a subject. The open book that comes with our questions is a set of 1329 elementary level science facts.
Clark, Peter +3 more
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The contributions of individual oral language skills to kindergarten students' reading comprehension
Background Research has demonstrated that distinct oral language skills contribute unique variance to text comprehension in students from second grade onward. This study examined these relationships for kindergarten students whose comprehension is often assumed to be determined by word decoding skills.
Jamie L. Metsala +2 more
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AN INTERLANGUAGE ERROR ANALYSIS: A FORMATIVE EVALUATION FOR FRESHMEN
This paper aims at finding the interlanguage errors made by the freshmen of English Department of Universitas Negeri Padang. This research needs to be conducted since the result can become a formative evaluation for lecturers in teaching English for the ...
Yuli Tiarina
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Measure for Measure: A Critical Consumers' Guide to Reading Comprehension Assessments for Adolescents [PDF]
A companion report to Carnegie's Time to Act, analyzes and rates commonly used reading comprehension tests for various elements and purposes.
Catherine Snow +2 more
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SQuAD: 100,000+ Questions for Machine Comprehension of Text
We present the Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD), a new reading comprehension dataset consisting of 100,000+ questions posed by crowdworkers on a set of Wikipedia articles, where the answer to each question is a segment of text from the ...
Liang, Percy +3 more
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Chinese Verb Frames in Primary Education: From Basic Communication to Cognitive Complexity
ABSTRACT This article investigates text complexity in Chineseālanguage textbooks for primary school students (Grades 1 to 6) in Hong Kong. Our analysis, based on verb frames in Mandarin VerbNet, shows a developmental shift in the linguistic input in first language (L1) education: Students begin with a focus on core frame elements in lower grades and ...
Tianyuan Cai +2 more
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MULTIPLE-CHOICE AND CLOZE TESTS: WHAT DO THEY REALLY MEASURE?
<p>The objective of this article is to show the results of a MA research carried out from july 1995 to august 1996. The aim was to find out what mental process(es) a testee goes through, while taking a multiple-choice and cloze test, in order to arrive at a correct answer.
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An experimental study of cloze procedure as an index of reading comprehension [PDF]
Call number: LD2668 .R4 1966 ...
Boyd, John Allen.
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Learning strategy use and performance on the multiple-choice cloze
The purpose of this study was to examine how college EFL learners use learning strategies in performing a multiple-choice doze test. Based on a general framework of cognitive and metacognitive strategies referred to O'Malley et a1. (1985) and Oxford (1990), the verbal protocols produced by four EFL learners were analyzed in terms of doze item types and
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CLOZE TEST DALAM PENGAJARAN BAHASA INGGRIS [PDF]
Apakah Cloze Test masih relevan dalam pengajaran bahasa Inggris dan apakah Cloze Test cukup baik buat mclihat kemampllan membaca ? Pertanyaan ini dapat diberi jawaban positif; Cloze Test tetap bisa dimanfaatkan dalam pengajaran bahasa lnggris ...
M., Subiyati, -
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