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Commentary: Another Response to Shanahan, Kamil, and Tobin: Further Reasons to Keep the Cloze Case Open.
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Cziko, Gary A. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1983
Comments on considerations that have implications for interpreting the work of Shanahan and associates, which appeared in this journal in 1982. Reviews research that was either ignored or inaccurately reviewed by them and offers suggestions for synthesizing the results of research investigating the sensitivity of the cloze procedure to…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Research Problems
Word Frequency, Information Theory, and Cloze Performance: A Transfer Feature Theory of Processing in Reading
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Finn, Patrick J. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1977
Hypothesizes that cloze easiness is a measure of information and tests this theory against a reanalysis of earlier data on cloze test performance. (AA)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education, Information Theory, Models
The Effects of Instructional Cloze on the Comprehension, Vocabulary, and Divergent Production of Third-Grade Students.
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Sampson, Michael R.; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1982
Reports that the substitution of a cloze instructional center for various reading centers improved students' reading comprehension and divergent production. (AEA)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension
Cloze as a Measure of Intersentential Comprehension.
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Shanahan, Timothy; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1982
Suggests limitations on the sensitivity of cloze procedures to measure the ability of college students to use information across sentence boundaries. (AEA)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
A Response to Shanahan, Kamil, and Tobin: The Case Is Not Yet Clozed.
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Henk, William A. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1982
Critically reviews an earlier published study that assessed the sensitivity of the cloze procedure to intersentential integration. (AEA)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Reading Tests
The Construct Validity of Cloze Procedure: An Exploratory Factor Analysis of Cloze, Paragraph Reading, and Structure-of-Intellect Tests
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Horton, Raymond Joseph – Reading Research Quarterly, 1974
Describes an International Reading Association award-winning dissertation designed to determine the construct validity of the cloze procedure on paragraph reading of science and social studies materials. (RB)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Doctoral Dissertations, Higher Education, Reading Comprehension
Context in Reading and Listening: Variations in Approach to Cloze Tasks
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Neville, Mary H.; Pugh, A. K. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1976
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Educational Research, Grade 5
The Responsiveness of Cloze Readability Measures to Linguistic Variables Operating Over Segments of Text Longer Than a Sentence
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Ramanauskas, Sigita – Reading Research Quarterly, 1972
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Junior High School Students, Language Patterns, Measurement Techniques
Prior Knowledge and Difficult Vocabulary in the Comprehension of Unfamiliar Text.
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Stahl, Steven A.; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1989
Examines the effect of prior knowledge and difficult vocabulary on students' recall of a passage from a social studies text. Concludes that vocabulary difficulty may affect microprocessing (development of coherent text base) while prior knowledge may affect macroprocessing (summarizing), and that these effects function independently, not…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Grade 6
Effects of Inference Training on Comprehension and Comprehension Monitoring.
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Dewitz, Peter; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1987
Concludes that a cloze strategy, which induced students to integrate text information with prior knowledge, yielded superior gains in comprehension compared to treatments that did not include the strategy. (FL)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education, Inferences, Intermediate Grades
Sentence Depth Measures as Predictors of Reading Difficulty
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MacGinitie, Walter H.; Tretiak, Richard – Reading Research Quarterly, 1971
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Deep Structure, Difficulty Level, Linguistic Theory
The Relationships Among Two Cloze Measurement Procedures and Divergent Thinking Abilities
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Byrne, Sister Mary Ann; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1971
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Divergent Thinking
Visual and Auditory Training with the Cloze Procedure to Improve Reading and Listening Comprehension
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Kennedy, Delores Kessler; Weener, Paul – Reading Research Quarterly, 1973
See related article by James L. Wardrop and Diane L. Essex, CS 705 856. (RB)
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Cloze Procedure, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
An Exploratory Study of the Relationships between Reported Imagery and the Comprehension and Recall of a Story.
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Sadoski, Mark – Reading Research Quarterly, 1983
Suggests that self-reported story climax imagery is related to deeper levels of processing on reading comprehension measures that do not rely disproportionately on verbal reasoning processes. (AEA)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Grade 5
Word Length and Word Shape as Sources of Information in Reading.
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Haber, Lyn R.; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1983
Indicates that college students make use of word length and shape information to decode text and that the context of a passage affects students' knowledge of the syntactic structure and semantic content of that passage. (AEA)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Context Clues