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Matching and Multiple-Choice Cloze Tests
Journal of Educational Research, 1979AbstractFew reliable and valid measures of reading achievement are available to evaluate programs for elementary English-as-a-second-language (ESL) pupils. Four variations on the cloze procedure, which has been previously used with disadvantaged and ESL elementary pupils, were evaluated using randomly assigned groups of fourth and fifth grade students.
Richard B. Baldauf, Ivan K. Propst
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Cloze Technique and Multiple Choice Technique: Reliability and Validity
Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1978Two multiple choice forms of two cloze tests were developed based on the most frequent responses given to the cloze forms by college students. These forms were administered to large samples of undergraduate students and were scored and item analyzed with original keys, empirical keys, and empirical keys with option weighting.
Abraham A. Panackal, Carl S. Heft
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Testing EFL Reading Comprehension Using a Multiple-Choice Rational Cloze
Modern Language Journal, 1984ing comprehension by means of the cloze procedure. In a cloze test, the examinee is required to fill in gaps in a given text. After Taylor developed the cloze to measure text difficulty for native readers, other researchers showed that it can measure foreign and second language proficiency as well.1 Opinions differ as to whether the random cloze (every
Marsha Bensoussan
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Kwaliteit En Efficientie Van Multiple-Choice Cloze-Toetsing
Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen, 1988This article presents and discusses a number of empirical findings concerning the psychometric quality of multiple-choice cloze tests as tests of general language proficiency, with emphasis on their validity and efficiency. The Dutch proficiency of various groups of foreign speakers was measured both by a series of separate proficiency tests in ...
Jochems, W.M.G., Montens, F.
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Recommendation for English multiple-choice cloze questions based on expected test scores [PDF]
International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems, 2011 When students study for multiple-choice cloze tests as the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC), they tend to repeatedly tackle questions of the same type. In such situations, students can effectively solve questions related to their incorrectly answered questions.
Tomoharu Iwata
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The Multiple-Choice Cloze Test as a General Language Proficiency Test
ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Belgium), 1988Abstract This article presents axsd discusses a number of empirical findings conœroing the validity of multiple-choice cloze tests as tests of general language proficiency. Foreign students of Dutch at Delft University of Technology were given both a series of separate proficiency tests in nstemng, speaking, reading, writing and ...
Wim Jochems, Frans Montens
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Tweede Taalbeheersing Meten Met Een Multiple-Choice Cloze-Toets
Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen, 1987This article reports on empirical research on the psychometric quality of multiple-choice cloze-tests, specifically their validity. The command of Dutch as a second language of groups of foreign students who attended the course "Dutch for foreigners" at the Technical University of Delft was measured. There were high correlations between the scores on a
Jochems, W.M.G., Montens, F.
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The relation of multiple-choice cloze items to the Test of English as a Foreign Language
Language Testing, 1989Four categories of multiple-choice (MC) cloze items were examined in relation to the TOEFL. The object was to assess the factor structure of the TOEFL and the potential of distinguishing MC cloze items aimed at reading comprehension (defined in terms of textual constraints ranging across clauses) as contrasted with knowledge of grammar (short-range ...
John W Oller Jr
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Selecting English Multiple-Choice Cloze Questions Based on Difficulty-Based Features
Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 2011English multiple-choice cloze questions require learners of various grammatical and lexical knowledge. Since the knowledge of learners is different, it is difficult to provide appropriate questions suitable for learners’ understanding levels. This research determines features that affect to difficulties of questions and proposes the method for ...
Tomoko Kojiri +2 more
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Automatic Generation of Multiple-choice Cloze-test Questions for Lao Language Learning
2021 International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP), 2021Xinying Qiu +5 more
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