Development of a new reading comprehension assessment: Identifying comprehension differences among readers
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☆ This research was supported by Grant #R305C050059 Sciences (IES), U.S. Department of Education, to the Unive the Interdisciplinary Education Sciences Predoctoral T Interdisciplinary Training in Education Sciences (MITER)” f as well as by Grant #R305b110012 from the IES, U.S. D Center on Teaching and Learning at the University of O Fellowship for writing resources. The opinions expressed not necessarily represent views of the IES or the U.S. Depar ⁎ Corresponding author at: University of Oregon, 16 Eugene, OR 97403, United States. Tel.: +1 541 346 8363; E-mail address: [email protected] (S.E. Carlson).
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