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ArticleEducational research review2021

Is Retell a Valid Measure of Reading Comprehension?

Yucheng Cao, Young-Suk Grace Kim

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Article in Educational research review, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Yucheng CaoUniversity of California, Irvine.
Young-Suk Grace KimUniversity of California, Irvine.

Funding

THE FLORIDA LONGITUDINAL STUDYP50HD052120 · NICHD · FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI CHRIS W SCHATSCHNEIDER · 2006 to 2026
$31.7M
NICHD NIH HHS P50 HD052120
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Retell is used widely as a measure of reading comprehension. In this meta-analysis, we evaluated the relation between retell and other measures of reading comprehension among students in Grades 1-12. Data from 23 studies (82 effect sizes;

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assessmentmeta-analysismoderatorsreading comprehensionretell

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PMID33456495
PMCPMC7806198

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