Reports on an examination of three types of cloze tests developed from a fiction and a nonfiction passage to see if such tests showed promise for use in a pre/posttesting paradigm for investigating the acquisition of information from texts by reading. (Author/HOD)

Research indicates that a special version of the cloze procedure is a reliable test of reading comprehension. (RB)

This study explored the validation of a criterion or reference score for determining the adequacy of any individual's cloze score. The hypothesis tested in this research was that a cloze preformance of 40 percent on materials ranging in difficulty from grades 4 to 8 will predict a 75 percent criterion level of reading comprehension based on a…

A New Zealand pilot study examined Tests of Reading Comprehension (TORCH) scores compared to PAT: Reading Comprehension scores and compared with teacher ratings. TORCH is a reading test package published in 1987 by the Australian Council for Educational Research. It consists of 14 untimed passages intended to assess the extent to which readers in…

Supports the hypothesis that cloze measures the extent to which linguistic cues in the immediate environment of a missing word tend to supply meaning. (RB)

Reports on a study that provides evidence of the validity of the cloze test as a measure of reading comprehension and its subskills as measured by a conventional standardized reading achievement test. (HOD)

Reports on two studies of the effect of different typographic settings on the speed and accuracy of responses to cloze procedure reading tests. Concludes that in-text responding and dashes produce significantly higher scores. (SRT)

Suggests limitations on the sensitivity of cloze procedures to measure the ability of college students to use information across sentence boundaries. (AEA)

Summarizes the results of a series of factor analyses of a new test of literal comprehension using a multiple-choice cloze format. (JM)

Critically reviews an earlier published study that assessed the sensitivity of the cloze procedure to intersentential integration. (AEA)

Results of two studies in Australia indicate that matching cloze exercises adequately measure reading comprehension skills of secondary ESL students. (MKM)

Describes an International Reading Association award-winning dissertation designed to determine the construct validity of the cloze procedure on paragraph reading of science and social studies materials. (RB)

This study was concerned with the validation of the "Hicks Cloze-Reading Test," an evaluative instrument to be used by the classroom teacher in assessing the reading ability levels of children. Three instruments, the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test," the "Standard Reading Inventory," and the "Hicks Cloze-Reading…

Seven passages of a published reading comprehension test were administered to college students to compare the regular multiple choice test scores with scores on two forms of a cloze test and with readability formula values. (HOD)