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A Postal Survey of OU Students' Reading Skills.

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Macdonald-Ross, Michael; Scott, Bernard – Open Learning, 1997

Analysis of reading tests (cloze and vocabulary) completed by first-year undergraduates at the Open University (Great Britain) demonstrated that many students in open-entry undergraduate programs have difficulty reading academic texts and that this difficulty has a negative impact on their success. (Contains 18 figures and six tables.) (PEN)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cloze Procedure, Foreign Countries, Higher Education

A Comparison of Performance on Cloze Tests, Group Reading Inventories and Standardized Reading Achievement in Grades Seven, Eight and Nine.

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Rakes, Thomas A.; McWilliams, Lana J. – 1979

A random sample of 300 seventh, eighth, and ninth grade students participated in a comparative study of performance on social studies cloze tests, social studies group reading inventories (GRI), and a popular standardized test (Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests, Survey E). It was found that cloze tests and GRIs constructed from social studies content…

Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Content Area Reading, Informal Reading Inventories