- Title
- Cloze as a measure of specialist language difficulties: write-in or multiple choice?
- Creator
- Zangmo, Sonam; Laugesen, Richard; O'Toole, John Mitchell; Gyeltshen, Kuenzang
- Relation
- Bhutan Journal of Research and Development Vol. 7, Issue 12, p. 26-31
- Publisher
- Royal University of Bhutan
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- This paper reports a quantitative study of 180 Bhutanese Year 10 secondary school student responses to 'write-in' and 'multiple-choice' format Cloze tests based on the same Biology passage from a Year 9 science textbook. The study sought to better understand the impact of moving from manual coding to machine scoring of Cloze responses. Findings reveal the following: a) The overall difference in student scores on the two tests was not statistically significant. b) Both tests suggest similar patterns of student difficulty. c) This group of students appeared to have trouble with identifying the topics within a particular piece of science writing, the way that the ideas within it were connected and the manner in which things described within it were done. This study is significant because web-based Cloze generators are becoming more widely available and teachers who are considering their use would benefit from an understanding of the relationship between these two forms of a commonly used language test.
- Subject
- Cloze; comprehensibility; readability; test format
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1409487
- Identifier
- uon:36030
- Identifier
- ISSN:1321-4585
- Language
- eng
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