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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Cloze Test"”.
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The Effect of Intersentential Constraints on Cloze Test Performance on Expository and Narrative Material
… of this study was to investigate whether the cloze procedure measures reading comprehension. Of particular interest was whether cloze measures integration across sentences, or intersentential comprehension. If cloze measures intersentential comprehension, then randomly disordering sentences in …
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An investigation into the relationships between cloze test scores and informal reading inventory scores of fifth grade pupils
… instructional level scores as determined by a cloze test and instructional level scores as determined by an informal reading inventory. Subjects used in this study were selected from schools in a mid-western community. Five schools were selected from a total of twenty-two elementary schools by …
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A comparison of a fixed-ratio deletion procedure and a rational, increasing-ratio deletion procedure in cloze test
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Patterns of Lexical Cohesion in a Multiple-Choice Cloze Test: Differences Between English as a Second Language Learners and Native Speakers of American English
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 69218 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs
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The Effects of Passage Type, Deletion Type, and Scoring Method on The English Cloze Test Performance of Foreign Graduate Technical and Non-Technical Students
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The Cloze Procedure: A Measure of Reading Comprehension Ability
… measured by the Paragraph Comprehension subtest of the McGraw-Hill Basic Skills System Reading Test and the cloze test developed for this project. Two classes of undergraduate education majors enrolled in “Foundations of Performance-Based Education” were administered both the cloze test and …
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Evaluation of Textbook Difficulty and Adaptation Strategies Used in Turkish Elementary Schools
… word long sixth word deletion versions of cloze test passages were prepared. Social studies and science teachers' feasibility and use of textbook adaptation strategies were evaluated by using The Textbook Adaptations Evaluation Instrument (TAEI) (Schumm, Vaughn, & Saumell, 1994). …
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The Influence of Visualization on Fifth Grade Students' Comprehension
… They then received either a standard lesson and cloze test or a visualization lesson and cloze test directly following each chapter. The data gathered from the cloze comprehension tests were analyzed and calculated by the instructor. A t-test was used and determined that the chapters with direct …
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Using media to teach a biography of Lincoln and Douglass: a case study of teaching ESL listening & viewing in college composition
… 12 students participated in the broadcast cloze test about children's grief, and 12 students participated in the cloze test based on the poem about Nancy Hanks, Lincoln's mother. Students were all males from Saudi Arabia, Japan, China, Korea, and Spain. Both qualitative and quantitative …
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The Effects of Maze Training Upon Transference to Standard Cloze Performance
… training for students when completing standard cloze exercises after receiving instruction in multiple-choice cloze (maze) exercises. An experimental, matched control group, pretest-posttest design was used for the study. The sample consisted of 44 fifth grade students who were equated in terms …
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The Organization of Prose and Its Effects on Reading English as a Foreign Language (Iran)
… Study 1, using a multiple-choice reading test investigated the subjects' sensitivity to the hierarchical organization of ideas in expository prose passages. Study 2, using an outline completion test examined the subjects' ability to recognize and manipulate rhetorical relations. Study 3, …
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A comparison of various procedures for identifying instructional reading placement
… instructional reading level as determined by a cloze test, the Ginn Reading 360 Initial Screening Test, and teachers' estimates at three grade levels (second, third, and fourth).MethodologyTwenty-seven second graders, thirty third graders, and twenty-three fourth graders from one elementary …
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A Study of Cloze Procedure Variables and Standardized Tests as Predictors of Reading Achievement
… to examine whether standardized reading tests, cloze tests, or any combination of these variables could be predictors of reading achievement. The subjects for this study were ninety-two eighth, tenth, and twelfth grade students. The variables in this study were the The Nelson Reading Test …
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The Role of Focused Input on the Acquisition of Tense and *Aspect by L2 Learners of French
Cloze test results show that the experimental group exhibited a U-shaped behavior in their use of imperfective vs. perfective morphology with achievement verbs after they received the input flood. They selected more often an unbounded interpretation of achievement predicates when the context …
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Approaches to vocabulary learning and their relationship to success
… achievement level. Students' performance on two tests, a Yes/No test assessing knowledge of academic vocabulary, and a cloze test assessing overall English proficiency, were compared for the 8 clusters. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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The Use of Four Reading Tests For Classroom Reading Placement
… reading level of students through the use of test scores obtained on the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills, the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test, and the Informal Reading Inventory. The subjects for this study were 78 sixth grade students in a junior high setting. The variables in this study …
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An investigation of the effects of two modes of prereading assistance on fifth graders' literal and interpretive comprehension of selected material
… three schools (159 subjects) were given Ransom's Cloze Test as an initial screening device. Those students scoring between fourth and seventh-grade instructional level, inclusive, on the Cloze Test were individually administered the Silvaroli Classroom Reading Inventory. Of the fifth-graders found …
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A study of bilingual children reading in a second language.
This research tested the hypothesis that bilingual children, using their second language and matched with monolingual children on a word recognition test, may differ significantly from them in the miscues made when reading and in attitudes to reading. Some prior research has indicated ethnic …
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Social and learner-specific factors in the acquisition of nativelike phonetic contrasts by study abroad students in Paris, France
… vowel perception. These instruments included a cloze test and an elicited imitation test for proficiency, a battery of motivational and attitudinal questionnaires, questionnaires about participants’ language backgrounds and contact with the target language, semi-structured individual and focus …
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Causativity in Chinese and its representations in English, Japanese and Korean speakers' L2 Chinese grammars.
… constructions. The experiment consists of a cloze test, a production test, an acceptability judgment test and a comprehension test. It involves 55 English speakers, 56 Japanese speakers, 73 Korean speakers and 28 native Chinese as controls. Both developmental patterns and variations between …
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