Evaluating Cloze as a Measure of Learning from Reading.

Cunningham, James W.; Tierney, Robert J.

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ERIC Number: EJ227524

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1979

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Evaluating Cloze as a Measure of Learning from Reading.

Cunningham, James W.; Tierney, Robert J.

Journal of Reading Behavior, v11 n3 p287-92 Fall 1979

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)

Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Reading Tests, Testing

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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