Passage-Dependence of Reading Comprehension Questions: Examples.
Fred Pyrczak · The Journal of Reading · 1975
the student may use to answer comprehension items without carefully reading the associated passages. First, he may use his general knowledge of the points in question. This seems especially likely to happen when the content in the passages is commonly taught in schools. Secondly, he may rely on the interrelatedness of the questions on a given passage. That is, he may be able to identify the answer to a given question on the basis of information in other questions on the same passage. Finally, he may use to advantage faults that can occur in a multiple