Reading comprehension abilities: a study with psychology students

Abstract

This research meant to explore the relation among reading comprehension and academic performance in specific contents of the Psychology course. The sample was composed of by 115 freshman students of the private university in São Paulo. The instruments used were two texts prepared in accordance to Cloze's technique and a questionnaire focusing the most used characterization types in higher education assessment. The results showed clearly a correlation, statistically significant, among reading comprehension, academic performance and learning assessment in Psychology course, specially when the grade results of the student individual production in assessment situation.

Academic performance; Cloze Test; Learning strategies