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Heerman, Charles E. – 1983
To analyze the validity of W. L. Taylor's cloze testing methodology, this paper first examines three areas contributing to Taylor's thinking: communications theory, the psychology of speech and communication, and the theory of dispositional mechanisms--or nonessential words--in speech. It then evaluates Taylor's research to determine how he…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education, Literature Reviews, Psycholinguistics
Rye, James – 1982
By examining the full range of uses of the cloze procedure, this book intends to help teachers use the procedure to better understand the reading behavior of their students and to assist their students in making reading progress. Chapter 1 defines the cloze procedure and discusses the similarities and differences in reading processes when using…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Elementary Education, Readability
Sirois, Herman A.; Davis, Robert L. – 1983
Noting that traditional measures of textbook difficulty and traditional measures of student reading ability suffer from a lack of correspondence, this booklet deals with the problems of (1) identifying the levels of conceptual difficulty of text materials, (2) identifying students' abilities to understand text materials, (3) matching the…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Readability
Strickland, Dorothy S.; And Others – 1987
Noting that the proliferation of computers in the schools requires teachers to know the best ways to use them, this book shows how the computer can be used in a reading and language arts curriculum as tool, tutor, and tutee with currently available software. Chapter one defines the reading process in terms of its relationship to background…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Software, Copyrights
Harrison, David; Little, Barbara – 1984
Covering the most important aspects of assessing adult basic readers, this collection of articles is introduced by a discussion of the purpose of resource books for adult education. The first article then examines the rationale for assessing reading ability and stresses the importance of purpose and design in assessment. The second article reviews…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Content Area Reading, Readability, Reading Ability