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Validating a Limited — Cloze Procedure

Journal of Literacy Research, 1978
Data from two studies were used to compare a limited-cloze procedure with the regular cloze procedure. The limited-cloze procedure differed from the regular cloze in one feature: the words deleted were randomly ordered and placed at the top of the test.
Patricia M Cunningham, James W Cunningham   +1 more
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Cloze Procedure and Cognitive Mapping

Environment and Behavior, 1979
Cloze procedure is a technique developed for use with textual material. In particular, it is employed in the testing of readability and comprehension. Recent work suggests that graphic adaptations of cloze procedure may be useful in the investigation of some limited aspects of cognitive mapping skills. This paper examines some of the technical problems
Michael E. Robinson, Peter Dicken
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The Cloze procedure: An assessment of the understandability of data processing texts

Information and Management, 1989
Abstract Readers often find data processing written materials difficult to understand. Poor writing style can adversely accept reader performance with and acceptance of textual materials. A number of methods have been used to measure or predict readability; the cloze procedure is a psycholinguistic technique which measures the extent to which a ...
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The Cloze Procedure

Health Education, 1978
Carol Ann Holcomb, John K. Ellis
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The Cloze Procedure

2021
Karim Sadeghi, Sadeghi Karim
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The Cloze Procedure

Journal of Advertising Research, 1983
George M Zinkhan, Betsy D Gelb
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The Cloze Procedure: An Analysis of Response Distributions

Journal of General Psychology, 1975
William E Blanton
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The Cloze Procedure: A Conspectus

Journal of Reading Behavior, 1970
In 1953, Wilson Taylor (then a graduate student at the University of Illinois) introduced a technique for measuring the effectiveness of communication which he called the "cloze procedure." The name of this new psychological tool was derived from the Gestalt concept of "Closure", (Rankin, 1959a,c), the tendency to complete a structural whole by filling
A. C. Bickley, Billie J. Ellington, Rachel T. Bickley   +2 more
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Cloze Procedure and Written Language in Schizophrenia

Language and Speech, 1980
Little information exists regarding the sensitivity of the Cloze technique in various modes of language response in schizophrenia. In an experiment calling for spoken and written responses, Cloze scores of spoken responses were different for schizophrenics and controls, while scores of written responses did not distinguish the two groups.
T C, Manschreck, B A, Maher, M E, Rucklos   +2 more
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A Rationale for the Cloze Procedure

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1984
Abstract This article attempts to answer two questions : firstly, the question of what cloze actually is. Explanations using the principle of 'redundancy1 in the text and the 'grammar expectancy' of the decoder seem to be more satisfactory than theories based on gestalt psychology or the 'information theory ...
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