Sentence examples for cloze test from inspiring English sources
A convenience sample of nursing students (N = 111) was administered a French language Cloze Test (C-Test), an English language C-Test, as well as the California Critical Thinking Skills Test, and the California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory.
They can then generate a cloze test from that passage.
Cloze test (seen passage and the first letter of the missing word is given) √ 2. Cloze test (seen passage).
The cloze test took 20 minutes to administer and score and the correlation between the cloze test and subparts of the placement test was substantial.
That is, Chinese undergraduates averaged 49% (24/50) clearly wrong on this cloze test.
(Cranney 1972 73), as an example, correlated fixed-ratio and tailored cloze tests with the Cooperative Reading Test.
Based on the coefficients of 0.52 and 0.51, it was concluded that cloze tests measured different aspects of reading from those measured by the Cooperative Reading Test.
Future research can replicate this study using cloze tests with more types of distractors.
Empirical validation of cloze tests dates back to the early days when cloze procedure was formally introduced by (Taylor 1953).
Sine this paper is primarily on the use of correlation in cloze tests, a brief account of what cloze is will also be included before reviewing the correct/incorrect applications of correlation in cloze testing.
