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Oshima, Lynette K. – 1980
The purpose of this study was to determine whether three procedures-- the cloze, maze, and intact cloze--were reliable and valid measures of readability. One hundred and eighty one sophomores were involved in the study. A passage, An Industrial Giant: Standard Oil Company, from the U.S. history textbook "The People Make a Nation"…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Educational Research, Readability Formulas, Secondary Education
