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Peer reviewedMacdonald-Ross, Michael; Scott, Bernard – Open Learning, 1997
Analysis of reading tests (cloze and vocabulary) completed by first-year undergraduates at the Open University (Great Britain) demonstrated that many students in open-entry undergraduate programs have difficulty reading academic texts and that this difficulty has a negative impact on their success. (Contains 18 figures and six tables.) (PEN)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cloze Procedure, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
