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The Cloze Procedure: A Modification

Foreign Language Annals, 1977
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess reading comprehension at differing levels of second language learning. Adaptations of Carver's (1973) reading‐input tests were administered to W6 college students enrolled in the first four semesters of Spanish.
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The Cloze Procedure: Some New Applications

The Journal of Educational Research, 1979
AbstractCloze passages were analyzed to determine if there is a consistent error pattern within independent, instructional, and frustration reading levels. Second and fourth grade students’ cloze passages were scored and classified as to reading level.
Alice Legenza, David Elijah
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‘Cloze’ procedure refined and modified

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1998
Background‘Cloze procedure assesses the predictability of text by deleting words at set intervals and having a panel of raters fill the blanks. Two refinements to the procedure are described: ‘modified Cloze and ’ ‘reverse Cloze’, the latter examining the subject's ability to interpret a partial transcript.MethodSamples of speech were obtained from ...
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The Cloze Procedure as a Measure of Mathematical English

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1975
A method of adapting cloze tests for use with mathematical passages is discussed. The validity of the cloze procedure as a measure of comprehensibility and difficulty of mathematical selections is tested. For 5 passages, 25 cloze tests and 5 comprehension tests were administered to subjects, grades 7 through 10.
Mary A. Hater, Robert B. Kane
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The Cloze Procedure and Dialect Considerations

The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 1977
consuming elements of determining each instructional level individually. Another legitimate advantage of the cloze is its adaptability from the types of materials a student is expected to use during instruction. Consequently, student assessment with the cloze may provide relatively beneficial information concerning his ability to manage various types ...
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Some Forerunners of Cloze Procedure

The Modern Language Journal, 1985
DURING THE 1970s WILSON TAYLOR'S CLOZE PROcedure became the subject of considerable interest among foreign-language testers looking for integrative measures of general language proficiency.1 Enthusiasm for cloze proved highly infectious, briefly elevating the procedure to an eminence it could not reasonably be expected to maintain.
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An Evaluation of the Cloze Procedure as a Test for Plagiarism

Teaching of Psychology, 1986
Two experiments that evaluate the effectiveness of the cloze test as a method for detecting plagiarism are reported. The first experiment employed student essays on the same topic, and required subjects to fill in missing words from either their own or another student's work.
Lionel Standing, Donald Gorassini
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Cloze Procedure and the Affective Domain

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Western College Reading Association, 1975
(1975). Cloze Procedure and the Affective Domain. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Western College Reading Association: Vol. 8, Proceedings of the Eight Annual Conference of the WCRA. College Learning Skills Today and Tomorrowland, pp. 25-30.
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The Cloze Procedure as a Test of Plagiarism: The Influence of Text Readability

The Journal of Psychology, 2005
The authors investigated whether scores on the Cloze procedure as a test of plagiarism would be significantly affected by the readability of text. Undergraduates were asked to either paraphrase or plagiarize legal documents. Approximately half of the participants in the paraphrase condition received documents that were difficult to read, whereas the ...
Marisela, Torres, Miguel, Roig
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A modules cloze procedures as a test of comprehension and expression in adolescents

Journal of Communication Disorders, 1980
An auditorily presented cloze procedure was used as a test of auditory comprehension and expression of language in learning disabled (LD) and regular classroom adolescents. Three sentence types of increasing linguistic complexity and five standard grammatical operations were employed in constructing the stimulus paragraph.
K J, Kallail, H T, Edwards
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