I found the reference I was thinking of:
Katz, S., Lautenschlager, G. J., Blackburn, A. B. & Harris, F. H. (1990).
Answering reading comprehension items without passages on the SAT.
Psychological Science, 1, 122-127.
Here is the abstract:
Examined whether the Reading Comprehension (RC) task on the Scholastic
Aptitude
Test (SAT) measures factors that are unrelated to RC. Two experiments were
conducted with 197 college students. Performance of Ss on the RC task was well
above chance when reading passages were deleted. Moreover, Ss and test items
performed similarly with or without the passages: Individual performance
correlated with verbal SAT score, and the difficulty of items belonging to a
passage correlated with a normative measure based on equated delta. Thus,
performance on the RC task appears to depend substantially on factors having
nothing to do with understanding the passages normally accompanying test
questions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved)
Annette
Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D.
Department of Psychology
University of San Diego
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA 92110
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