英文摘要 |
As it is evident from the results of the Program for International Students Assessment (PISA) 2009, the average performances of Taiwan students were not much different between the PISA 2006 and PISA 2009 survey cycles. In order to have a deep understanding of Taiwan students' performance on the reading assessment, the current study uses textual analysis for the constructed response items to explore students' potential reading problems. Three constructed-response items released in the PISA 2009 results are used for the analyses and discussion. The study concludes that low performers in Taiwan have the following characteristics. They tend to use phonetic symbols rather than Chinese characters. Misuses of words and/or grammar are often seen in their responses. The nonresponse rate is relatively high, and if there are valid responses, they do not correspond to the questions appropriately, which implies that students are not able to handle what has been measured. Sometimes, students even ignore the prompts and give their answers which are either not related to the prompts provided or not tied to the questions being asked. |