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Clozing in on reading comprehension: a deep cloze test of global inference making.
- Source :
- Reading & Writing; May2022, Vol. 35 Issue 5, p1221-1237, 17p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Traditional cloze tests (such as the CBM-maze) may be poor measures of comprehension processes beyond the single sentence level. This paper presents an alternative, a deep cloze test with gaps that are strategically chosen to assess comprehension beyond the sentence level. To fill each gap, the reader has to draw global cohesion inferences during reading. A study with 83 adult students found support for the validity of the deep cloze test. It contributed unique variance to global reading comprehension as measured with a conventional test even after controlling for sentence-level cloze, word decoding, and vocabulary knowledge. The deep cloze also explained all of the shared variance between reading comprehension and a topic identification task designed to require global comprehension. Future studies may explore how the deep cloze format can be used to tap other component processes of reading comprehension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- INFERENCE (Logic)
READING comprehension
ADULT students
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09224777
- Volume :
- 35
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Reading & Writing
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 156220075
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-021-10230-w