Psychometric properties of the reading comprehension test ECOMPLEC.Sec
Background: ECOMPLEC.Sec is a reading comprehension test for secondary students, conceived from a multidimensional perspective in line with large-scale educational surveys such as PISA or PIRLS. The objective of this study was to validate the theoretical model of ECOMPLEC. Sec. A bifactor model that...
| Autores: | , , , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Repositorio: | Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/677427 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10486/677427 https://dx.doi.org/10.7334/psicothema2015.92 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Psychometric properties ECOMPLEC.Sec Reading comprehension test Bifactor model Propiedades psicométricas Test de comprensión lectora Modelo bifactorial Psicología |
| Sumario: | Background: ECOMPLEC.Sec is a reading comprehension test for secondary students, conceived from a multidimensional perspective in line with large-scale educational surveys such as PISA or PIRLS. The objective of this study was to validate the theoretical model of ECOMPLEC. Sec. A bifactor model that postulates the existence of a general reading comprehension factor and three specifi c factors provided a good fi t to the data. Method: 1,912 adolescents (13-18 years) participated in this study. Data analysis included construct validity via confi rmatory factor analysis, and factors were regressed onto observed covariates for the interpretation of the constructs. Reliability was calculated from a non-linear SEM in order to justify the interpretability of the observed scale and subscale scores. Results: The bifactor model exhibited a signifi cantly better fi t to the data than the second-order model. Furthermore, construct validity analysis suggests the existence of specifi c reading comprehension factors. Finally, the reliability study also supports the idea of using a total score to obtain a measure of reading comprehension. Conclusions: ECOMPLEC. Sec displays a valid parsimonious factor structure, as well as metric properties that make it a suitable tool to assess reading comprehension |
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