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Chunbao Huang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Testing reading has always been indispensable in language tests. The present study aims to evaluate three parallel reading tests from the National College English Test Band Four (CET-4) in June 2021 in terms of reading ability orientations, text readability and its correlations with reading performances. The quantitative analysis reveals: (1) in…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, English (Second Language), Language Tests
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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
Council of Chief State School Officers, 2017
Appendix A of the Common Core State Standards (hereafter CCSS) contains a review of the research stressing the importance of being able to read complex text for success in college and career. The research shows that while the complexity of reading demands for college, career, and citizenship have held steady or risen over the past half century,…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, English Instruction, Language Arts, Literacy
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Esmer, Baris; Günes, Ahmet Melih – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2019
In this study, it is aimed to determine at what level the Meaning Identification Technique (MIT) can measure the reading comprehension skills of the 4th grade primary school students and to test the validity and reliability of the MIT test with different types of texts. In the study carried out in the survey model, MIT and Sentence Verification…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Public Schools
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Eze, Nneka Justina – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This study assessed the effects of cloze instructional approach on senior secondary school students' achievement in Igbo language reading comprehension. The study utilized a quasi experimental research design of the pretest posttest non-equivalent control group design. The study was conducted in Abakaliki education zone of Ebonyi State of Nigeria.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cloze Procedure, Secondary School Students, Reading Comprehension
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Coetzee, Stephen A.; Janse van Rensburg, Cecile; Schmulian, Astrid – Accounting Education, 2016
This study explores differences in students' reading comprehension of International Financial Reporting Standards in a South African financial reporting class with a heterogeneous student cohort. Statistically significant differences were identified for prior academic performance, language of instruction, first language and enrolment in the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Standards, Accounting, Intervention
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Ajideh, Parviz; Mozaffarzadeh, Sorayya – English Language Teaching, 2012
Cloze tests have been widely used for measuring reading comprehension since their introducing to the testing world by Taylor in 1953. But in 1982, Klein-Braley criticized cloze procedure mostly for their deletion and scoring problems. They introduced their newly developed testing procedure, C-test, which was an evolved form of cloze tests without…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Language Tests
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Schatzberg-Smith, Kathleen – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 1989
Reviews the literature and research on readability. Examines early formulas that relied on sentence length and difficulty of vocabulary, the subsequent use of cloze procedure to measure text readability, and other factors now recognized as influences on the comprehensibility of a text. Concludes that readability formulas have not served education…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Literature Reviews, Readability, Readability Formulas
Miccinati, Jeannette Louise – 1976
This paper on readability begins with a brief discussion of comprehension, including a definition, and then lists factors that influence comprehension, such as knowledge of vocabulary, long passages that are ambiguous, digressions, and unnecessary restatements. The paper then explores readability and presents a graph for estimating readability and…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials, Readability
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Lehner, Franz – Information Processing and Management, 1993
Discusses methods of textual documentation that can be used for software documentation. Highlights include measurement of text comprehensibility; methods for the measurement of documentation quality, including readability and the Cloze Procedure; tools for the measurement of text readability; and the development of the Reading Measurability…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Computer Software, Documentation, Hypermedia
Haugh, Oscar M. – 1975
Readability has been gauged by such means as determining the length of individual words in a passage, analyzing types of sentences, and assessing numbers of subordinate clauses, prepositional phrases, modifiers, and so on. Probably the most successful formula has been the Dale-Chall method, which measures readability by determining the percentage…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Difficulty Level, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Ribordy, Francois-Xavier; And Others – 1987
A study investigated the readability of current laws for Canadian francophones and anglophones. The 63 subjects were asked to read a variety of brief legal texts available in parallel styles in both languages and to answer questions about the texts' content. Subjects were also surveyed about their preference for a formal or vulgarized style of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Citizenship Education, Cloze Procedure, English
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Salmani-Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Journal of Educational Technology, 2007
This paper underscores the effect of text cohesion on EFL reading comprehension. 160 EFL (n = 80) and non-EFL (n = 80) university students took two versions of a cloze test based on a passage of 750 words length one developed with every nth word deletion and the other with cohesive word deletion. The results of analyses of variance indicated that…
Descriptors: Success, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Cloze Procedure
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King, Rosemary – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1976
Readability levels of 30 items from Child Development Abstracts and 30 passages from their corresponding journal articles were compared by a CAL SNOBOL computer program referenced to a cloze criterion. Results supported the hypothesis that abstracts were more difficult to read than their source documents. (Author)
Descriptors: Abstracts, Cloze Procedure, Readability, Reading Comprehension
Allison, Stan; And Others – 1995
A group of adult education teachers sought to determine if a readability formula applied to classroom materials provided a match with student reading levels. Cloze tests were used to determine whether students were able to understand the material. In three of the eight samples, the Cloze test showed that the readability test did not accurately…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, High School Equivalency Programs
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