Clozing in on Reading Comprehension: A Deep Cloze Test of Global Inference Making

Autor/inn/en	Jensen, Katrine Lyskov; Elbro, Carsten
Titel	Clozing in on Reading Comprehension: A Deep Cloze Test of Global Inference Making
Quelle	In: Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 35 (2022) 5, S.1221-1237 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Elbro, Carsten)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0922-4777
DOI	10.1007/s11145-021-10230-w
Schlagwörter	Cloze Procedure; Reading Comprehension; Inferences; Adults; Validity; Decoding (Reading); Vocabulary + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lückentext; Leseverstehen; Inference; Inferenz; Gültigkeit; Dekodierung; Wortschatz
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. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01