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Assessing the Complexity of Literacy Tasks

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Factors influencing the “type of match”

	Number of phrases or features to search on and the meaning of these features

	Number of items in the response

	Inference needed to match given or requested information
		low text-based inference
		high text-based inference

	Plausibility of distracting information

Slide 19

Plausibility of distractors

	A “distractor” is when information in the text meets some, but not all, of the conditions specified in the question or directive to obtain the requested information:
		“distractor” for the given information
		“distractor” for the requested information

	Three complexity factors:
		Number of shared conditions
		Number of “distractors”
		Proximity of “distractors”


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