This paper presents the results of a research study focussing on psychometric testing aimed to evaluate quantitative and qualitative basic cognitive and superior thinking processes during reading comprehension. The cognitive and psycholinguistic domains through reading comprehension were taken in account, based on the theories the Cognitive Structure Modifiability of Reuven Feuerstein, complemented by the process theory of Margarita Sánchez; and the Textual Psycholingüistic processing of T.A Van Dijk y W. Kinysch. The selected samples were taken from male and female students of fourth and fifth grades of High School and freshmen at University level, belonging to public and private institutions. The result of the analysis showed the content validity of the instrument through expert judgment. The psychometric validation was carried out through two phases: the first one determined the dif...

This study had the objective to analyze the mental processes in terms of the thinking abilities and the cognitive functions as well as some levels of text processing that distinguish (differentiate) good and poor reader students from High School. The analysis was based on the theories: The Structural Cognitive Modifiability of Reuven Feuerstein and the Text Processing of W. Kintsch and T.A Van Dick. The cognitive demands of solution from each one of the questions of a standardized reading test were analyzed as mentioned before. The following cognitive processes were identified and organized: Classification, Analysis-Synthesis, Logic inference and Hypothetical reasoning.

This paper presents the results of a research study focussing on psychometric testing aimed to evaluate quantitative and qualitative basic cognitive and superior thinking processes during reading comprehension. The cognitive and psycholinguistic domains through reading comprehension were taken in account, based on the theories the Cognitive Structure Modifiability of Reuven Feuerstein, complemented by the process theory of Margarita Sánchez; and the Textual Psycholingüistic processing of T.A Van Dijk y W. Kinysch. The selected samples were taken from male and female students of fourth and fifth grades of High School and freshmen at University level, belonging to public and private institutions. The result of the analysis showed the content validity of the instrument through expert judgment. The psychometric validation was carried out through two phases: the first one determined the dif...

This study had the objective to analyze the mental processes in terms of the thinking abilities and the cognitive functions as well as some levels of text processing that distinguish (differentiate) good and poor reader students from High School. The analysis was based on the theories: The Structural Cognitive Modifiability of Reuven Feuerstein and the Text Processing of W. Kintsch and T.A Van Dick. The cognitive demands of solution from each one of the questions of a standardized reading test were analyzed as mentioned before. The following cognitive processes were identified and organized: Classification, Analysis-Synthesis, Logic inference and Hypothetical reasoning.