Answering Reading Comprehension Items without Passages on the SAT
研究发现，即使删除文章，大学生在SAT阅读理解题上的表现仍远高于随机水平，且题目难度与考生表现的模式与有文章时相似，表明该任务很大程度上测量了与阅读理解无关的因素。
Performance of college undergraduates on the Reading Comprehension task of the SAT was well above chance when the passages were deleted. Moreover, examinees 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. The findings demonstrate that the Reading Comprehension task substantially measures factors unrelated to reading comprehension.