cloze procedure
Noun: A testing technique used to assess reading comprehension, language proficiency, or text difficulty. In this procedure, words are systematically deleted from a prose passage (e.g., every nth word), and the reader is required to fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
The cloze procedure is primarily used as an educational and diagnostic tool. - It is administered to evaluate how well a person understands the context and grammar of a text. - It is constructed by deleting words from a complete passage according to a fixed pattern. - The results are scored to measure reading ability or text readability.
- The teacher used a cloze procedure to assess the students' grasp of the academic article.
- Developing a valid cloze procedure requires careful selection of the text and deletion pattern.
- His score on the cloze procedure indicated a strong understanding of contextual clues.
- Rational-Deletion Cloze: A variation where specific types of words (e.g., prepositions, content words) are deleted based on the test's focus, rather than using a fixed-interval system.
- Scoring Methods: Responses can be scored for replacement (only the original deleted word is accepted) or for replacement (any contextually and grammatically correct word is accepted).
- Cloze Test (n): A more common term for an assessment created using the cloze procedure. (e.g., "The students completed a cloze test.")
- Cloze Deletion (n): Refers to an individual blank or the specific act of removing a word within the procedure.
- Gap-fill exercise/test: A general term for any exercise where words are omitted from a text for the learner to insert.
- Completion test: A broader category of tests requiring the test-taker to complete missing information.
The term specifically refers to the methodology or technique itself. It is an objective, structured procedure often used in research and standardized assessment, distinguishing it from informal gap-fill activities. The word "cloze" is derived from "closure," a concept from Gestalt psychology.
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a test for diagnosing reading ability; words are deleted from a prose passage and the reader is required to fill in the blanks
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