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Conoyer, Sarah J.; Lembke, Erica S.; Hosp, John L.; Espin, Christine A.; Hosp, Michelle K.; Poch, Apryl L. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2017
The present study examined the technical adequacy of maze-selection tasks constructed in 2 different ways: typical versus novel. We selected distractors for each measure systematically based on rules related to the content of the passage and the part of speech of the correct choice. Participants included 262 middle school students who were…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Multiple Choice Tests, Reading Tests, Reading Comprehension
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