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ERIC ED239219: The Relationship of the Concurrent and Construct Val... |
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To investigate the causes of variation in cloze- |
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comprehension test correlations, a reanalysis was |
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conducted of the influential J.R. Bormuth study (1962), |
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which reported correlations between nine cloze and nine |
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comprehension tests administered to 50 subjects in grades |
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4, 5, and 6. Two separate renalayses were completed in |
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the present study, the first using cloze-comprehension |
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correlations as a dependent measure and the second using |
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correlations of cloze with each of the Bormuth question |
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catagories--vocabulary, factual recall, sequential order, |
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cause and effect, inference, and author's purpose--at |
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each grade level. Results indicated that in both |
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reanalyses, variable reliability and grade level |
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differences accounted for some of the variation in |
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correlations. The proportion of comprehension test |
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questions found to assess within-sentence information was |
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found to be significant in the first regression analysis |
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but not in the second. Results suggested that the limited |
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construct validity of cloze as a measure of comprehension |
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had a small but significant influence on the concurrent |
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validity of cloze with measures of comprehension. Cloze |
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predicted performance best when within-sentence |
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comprehension dominated, but was less useful when |
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students were expected to integrate information across |
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sentence boundaries. (MM) |
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Date Published: 2022-08-03 02:03:19 |
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Identifier: ERIC_ED239219 |
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Item Size: 12106210 |
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Language: english |
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Media Type: texts |
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