The verbal report and its use in research on test-taking strategies in reading ; Raport werbalny i jego wykorzystanie w badaniach nad strategiami rozwiązywania testów z zakresu czytania

The article discusses kinds of verbal reports and their characteristic features. More specifically, it focuses on: a) the validity of particular types of verbal reports and the data these are likely to provide, b) a quite difficult distinction between introspection and retrospection in researching reading, and c) the characteristic features and limitations of think-aloud protocols (categorized as introspective verbal report), especially if used to investigate the concrete reading format of gapped-text. ; The article discusses kinds of verbal reports and their characteristic features. More specifically, it focuses on: a) the validity of particular types of verbal reports and the data these are likely to provide, b) a quite difficult distinction between introspection and retrospection in researching reading, and c) the characteristic features and limitations of think-aloud protocols (categorized as introspective verbal report), especially if used to investigate the concrete reading format of gapped-text.