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Cloze Procedure and Cognitive Mapping
Environment and Behavior, 1979Cloze 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
Peter Dicken
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The Cloze procedure: An assessment of the understandability of data processing texts
Information and Management, 1989Abstract 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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Cloze testing for comprehension assessment: The HyTeC-cloze
Language Testing, 2019 Although there are many methods available for assessing text comprehension, the cloze test is not widely acknowledged as one of them. Critiques on cloze testing center on its supposedly limited ability to measure comprehension beyond the sentence ...
Suzanne Kleijn, Henk Pander Maat
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The Cloze Procedure: A Conspectus
Journal of Reading Behavior, 1970In 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
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A Rationale for the Cloze Procedure
ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1984Abstract 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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CLOZE PROCEDURE AND EQUIVALENCE
Language Learning, 1978Two cloze tests were constructed which were identical except that in one test each deletion occurred one word earlier than in the other. Each test consisted of one literary and one nonâliterary passage, each with 50 blanks. The tests were administered to 39 Polish students, three weeks elapsing between the first and second tests.
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Educational Research, 1981
Summary The LEAs' and Schools' Item Banking Project (LEAS1B) 1 is developing banks of materials for assessment in language. As background to this it was decided to review the literature relating to the cloze procedure to see if it might be useful either as a measure of readability of the texts to be used, or as a possible method of assessing reading ...
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Summary The LEAs' and Schools' Item Banking Project (LEAS1B) 1 is developing banks of materials for assessment in language. As background to this it was decided to review the literature relating to the cloze procedure to see if it might be useful either as a measure of readability of the texts to be used, or as a possible method of assessing reading ...
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