Return-Path: <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id j9DFbCG00053; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:37:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:37:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20051013113352.00cccee0@mail.psnyc.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Mariann Fedele <mariannf@lacnyc.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:3816] reading print vs electronic materials X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Status: O Content-Length: 2140 Lines: 67 This message is re-posted from the NIFL assessment discussion list. Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:02:31 -0400 (EDT) From: "Carol Van Duzer" <carol@cal.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov> This is an important question to consider when choosing (and developing) assessments. I recently asked Dr. Lyle Bachman, a professor at UCLA, about any research on reading test items online vs on paper so I wrote to ask him about the studies he mentioned. His response is below: "Some of the research is essentially inconclusive. Here's the URL for an on-line journal article that one of my students did when she was at UCLA: http://llt.msu.edu/vol5num2/sawaki/default.html She reviewed the literature on paper vs. on-line/screen reading in a number of fields, and found that the results were often not comparable, and that they weren't conclusive one way or the other. The other study I was thinking of was one that two of my students did comparing performance on on-line and P&P reading tests. They looked at differences in performance across web and P&P delivery formats, and also conducted verbal protocol analyses the investigate the strategies test takers used in the two modes. Here's the reference: Vongpumivitch, V. and Xi, X. (2002). Does presentation mode impact test-taking processes and performances on reading? Paper presented at the Language Testing Research Colloquium, Hong Kong. I'm not sure if they've published this anywhere." I hope these are helpful. Both Dr. Sawaki and Dr. Xi are at ETS. You may be ble to contact them there to see if they have any other leads. Carol Carol H. Van Duzer Training Coordinator Center for Adult English Language Acquisition (CAELA) Center for Applied Linguistics 4646 40th St., NW Washington, DC 20016 Tel: 202 362 0700 Fax: 202 363 7204 Email: carol@cal.org Visit our website at www.cal.org/caela Mariann Fedele Coordinator of Professional Development, Literacy Assistance Center Moderator, NIFL Technology and Literacy Discussion List 32 Broadway 10th Floor New York, New York 10004 212-803-3325 mariannf@lacnyc.org www.lacnyc.org
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