METAANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF SENTENCE-COMBINING ON READING-COMPREHENSION WHEN THE CRITERION MEASURE IS THE TEST OF READING-COMPREHENSION

Effects on reading comprehension of sentence-combining, which is grounded in psycholinguistic theory, have been ambiguous. Two assessments of the effects of sentence-combining on reading comprehension in which the Test of Reading Comprehension was given resulted in disparate results. This limited meta-analysis is based on the two studies with the goal of an over-all conclusion. The meta-analysis indicated that sentence-combining had no appreciable effect on reading comprehension when the test was used as the criterion measure.