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Alexander, Patricia A.; Singer, Lauren M.; Jablansky, Sophie; Hattan, Courtney – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
This study investigated the relational reasoning capabilities of older adolescents and young adults when the focal assessment was a verbal and more schooled measure than 1 that was figural and more novel in its configuration. To achieve this end, the verbal test of relational reasoning (vTORR) was constructed to parallel the test of relational…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Adolescents, Young Adults, Cognitive Ability
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Xu, Lan; Wannaruk, Anchalee – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2016
Performing routines in interlanguage is vitally important for EFL learners since it can cause embarrassment between speakers from different cultures. The present study aims to 1) investigate the reliability and validity of an interlanguge pragmatic competence test on routines in a Chinese EFL context with multiple choice discourse completion task…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Test Construction, Pragmatics, Interlanguage
Carver, Ronald P. – 1969
Four conceptually different variables in reading: (1) knowledge gained (new information), (2) amount comprehended (degree of understanding), (3) reading aptitude (differences between individuals), and (4) reading improvement (within individual changes as a result of treatment) are discussed. Existing measures of reading comprehension are evaluated…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Test Construction
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Valmont, William J. – Reading Teacher, 1983
Describes a variety of ways to create cloze blanks and discusses how the reader's task differs in the various types of exercises. (FL)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary Secondary Education, Prediction, Reading Diagnosis
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Cranney, A. Garr – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1972
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Students, Item Analysis, Multiple Choice Tests
Li, Wen-hui – 1986
The paper reviews the ways in which the cloze testing procedure measures the reading comprehension skills of students in the English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom. The construction and scoring of the test and the interpretation of the scores are discussed and the reliability and validity of the cloze procedure for testing reading skills…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Reading Comprehension
Hisama, Kay Keiko Washiya – 1976
This study presents a new version of the cloze procedure used as a placement test for foreign students enrolled in an English language program for non-native speakers. Called the New Cloze Test (NCT), the test was administered to 136 foreign students who were beginning college students and who had not been in the United States longer than one…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Doctoral Dissertations, English (Second Language), Foreign Students
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Panackal, Abraham A.; Heft, Carl S. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1978
Two multiple choice forms of two cloze reading tests were developed from responses to the cloze forms by college undergraduates. These tests were investigated using the original keys, empirical keys, and option weighted keys. Reliability and validity data are reported. (Author/JKS)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Higher Education, Multiple Choice Tests, Reading Tests
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Baldauf, Richard B., Jr. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1982
A Monte Carlo design examined how the effects of guessing and item dependence influence test characteristics and student scores. Although validity for cloze variants was high, multiple-choice cloze had significantly lower reliabilities than did true score equivalents. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education, Guessing (Tests), Reading Comprehension
El-Banna, Adel I. – 1986
Procedures for developing and validating a modified cloze test are described. The multiple-choice cloze procedure was developed to aid in the rapid placement of college freshmen who are students of English as a second language. It was designed to overcome some problems in the original cloze test, to reduce anxiety, and to be machine scored. The…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Freshmen, English (Second Language), Higher Education
O'Reilly, Robert P.; And Others – 1976
This report summarizes the development and validation of a test of literal comprehension based on a modified cloze technique. This modification of the cloze offers an objective and partially computerized procedure for constructing items in the multiple-choice format. A field test of the multiple-choice cloze (MCC) involved the administration of 36…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary Secondary Education, Factor Analysis, Item Analysis
Potter, Thomas C. – 1968
An overall look is taken at the cloze research method as a new tool for measuring readability. The construction of a cloze readability test is described as well as several studies made on the reliability and validity of such tests. Included also are some methodological considerations to be kept in mind when constructing a cloze test. Data is…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Evaluation Methods, Language Research, Measurement Techniques
Raatz, Ulrich – 1985
Classical cloze tests have been criticized as unsatisfactory operationalizations of the concept of reduced redundancy and the theory of expectancy grammar. Use of the C-Principle is proposed as an improvement over the classical cloze procedure. Such tests are constructed according to a technique that deletes the second half of every second word in…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Deck, Dennis – 1977
The construct validity of measures of reading comprehension was discussed. A word deletion procedure was proposed consistent with a model of comprehension which emphasizes the importance of context. The procedure assures sensitivity to context by allowing only highly constrained words to be deleted and by increasing the information value of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Elementary Education
Ekstrom, Ruth B.; And Others – 1975
This report is part of a general study of Reference Measures for Cognitive and Noncognitive Factors. The main activity being reported is the development of "factor-referenced" or "marker" tests for several recently identified cognitive factors. A secondary activity involves the study of possible relationships to factors already…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests, Concept Formation
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