Assessment of Reading Comprehension

Abstract

The present essay focused on the review of the literature on the importance of basic ideas
of the cognitive theory of reading comprehension, since it is so important to read accurately
how to contribute knowledge to understand. In an OECD study, Spain appeared in the
last positions in the understanding of oral and written language, among other disciplines. Situation
which highlights the importance of knowing what personal (psychological) factors
instructions (pedagogical) depends on this understanding. To help respond to this
problem, this paper describes and illustrates both the characteristics of the process of reading comprehension and the motivational and cognitive factors responsible for the differences individual in understanding, such as what ways of training reading comprehension can help motivate students to read trying to understand and improve the reading comprehension of texts? A fundamental problem when evaluating the reading is the absence of a clear and precise definition of the concept of reading. It accepts the fact that it is a complex capacity, and different authors point out that there are five levels or processes of understanding that must be taken into account in this evaluation. The different measures are described
of products that can be used for this and the most common problems they pose. Other Relevant aspect in the evaluation of comprehension is the type of text, given the different characteristics they present.