The results indicate that students enrolled in the first four courses of a foreign language have learned significantly different amounts of the same material, as measured by the CEEB Foreign Language Placement Tests. The relationships between the test scores and course grades indicated that test scores predict successful student performance almost…

This paper reports on a pilot study conducted to determine the possible use of the cloze procedure as a substitute measure of achievement in a second-year Spanish culture and civilization class. Twenty students enrolled in a third-semester Spanish class at the University of Colorado were simultaneously given multiple choice tests and cloze tests…