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Templer, Lois – 1982
Cloze tests assess the readability of a book for students in a far more personal way than formulas or standardized tests of reading comprehension. The cloze procedure reflects the total language abilities in the following ways: familiarity with sentence structure, context clues, and vocabulary, and the ability to draw inferences from written…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, Language Aptitude, Readability
Peer reviewedCarver, Ronald P. – Journal of Reading, 1985
Argues that the Degrees of Reading Power test is not a valid tool for its main purpose, matching students to appropriate texts, because the test's units of text difficulty are not uniformly comparable to the test's units used to reflect a reader's ability. (HOD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Readability, Readability Formulas, Reading Ability
