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93. The PISA reading literacy tasks range from very straightforward locating and comprehension
activities to quite sophisticated activities requiring integrating information across multiple texts. The
difficulty of any reading literacy task depends on an interaction amongst several variables. Drawing
on
Kirsch and Mosenthal’s work (see for example Kirsch, 2001; Kirsch & Mosenthal, 1990), the
difficulty of items can be manipulated by applying knowledge of the process and text format
variables. In Table 3 below we outline how the difficulty can be manipulated across the different
types of tasks.
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