CLOZE TEST

Dupitas, Christopher M.
What is a Cloze Test?

• is a technique in which words are deleted in a passage to create blanks.

Students must then fill in these blanks with appropriate word choices,
sometimes provided in a word bank. The procedure can be incredibly
useful for assessing students in various reading comprehension and
grammar skills.
• A Cloze Test (also called the "cloze deletion test") is an exercise, test, or
assessment consisting of a portion of text with certain words removed
(cloze text), where the teacher asks the participant to restore the
missing words. Cloze tests require students to understand context and
vocabulary to identify the correct words that belong in the deleted
passages of a text.
Cloze Test Procedure was developed by John
Bormuth (1967). In the "Cloze Test Procedure," the
teacher instructs students to restore omitted words
(usually every fifth word) in a reading passage.
Based on reviewing students' restored words from
the text passages, the teacher can determine a
more accurate level of comprehension. 
To use the Cloze Test Procedure to score material, follow this PROTOCOL:

Administration 
1. Omit every 5th word, replacing it with a blank space for the
student to write in the answer. 

2. Instruct students to write only one word in each blank and to try
to fill in every blank. 

3. Guessing is encouraged. 
To use the Cloze Test Procedure to score material, follow this
PROTOCOL:

Scoring

1. In most instances, the exact word must be restored. 

2. Misspellings are counted as correct when the response is deemed

correct in a meaning sense. 
Advantages of Cloze test

1. The correction of the task can be objectively

scored as it is rare to have more than one answer.
 
2. The results are encouraging in terms of reliability
and validity.
Disadvantages of Cloze test
 
1. The face validity is low because there are
many blanks.
 
2. If the isolated words are difficult, the test
takers concentrate their mind in  guessing the
vocabulary instead of comprehending the text.
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