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First-Year Results From the College Version of the Multiple-Choice Online Causal Comprehension Assessment (MOCCA-College)

Sat, April 10, 10:40am to 12:10pm EDT (10:40am to 12:10pm EDT), Division D, Division D - Section 1 Paper and Symposium Sessions

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This symposium reports results from the first year of a three-year measurement study designed to validate and further develop the Multiple-choice Online Causal Comprehension Assessment (MOCCA) for college-aged students. Papers focus on the 1) item specification and writing process, 2) think alouds and story recalls as measures of cognitive processes, 3) classical test theory and item response theory results from the pilot administration, and 4) results from validation tasks. Results indicate that MOCCA-College has great internal consistency and potential as a diagnostic measure of reading comprehension that not only distinguishes between good and poor comprehenders, but also distinguishes between types of poor comprehenders as grounded in comprehension theory and basic research.

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