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Table 3 Percentages of the Korean participants who chose and on six items

From: Test-taker perception of what test items measure: a potential impact of face validity on student learning

Item #

Item type

11

Complete a topic sentence in the passage

60.2 %

46.9 %

14

Identify the referent of this (the main theme)

69.4 %

45.9 %

23

Identify the main point of the passage

76.5 %

51.0 %

30

Identify the claim of the passage

82.7 %

70.4 %

31

Identify the title of the passage

84.7 %

64.3 %

35

Identify the purpose of the passage

80.6 %

43.9 %

  1.  = Ability to grasp the content quickly and objectively.  = Ability to understand the content and to infer the implicit content, including the main point, title, argument, and expression intentionally eliminated