Creating cloze comprehension tests
Cloze comprehension tests are a specific type of assessment tool that evaluates a student’s reading comprehension skills by presenting a passage with certain words or phrases deliberately omitted. The goal of a cloze test is for the student to fill in the missing words and demonstrate their understanding of the text.
In a cloze test, every nth word or phrase in the passage is removed, leaving a blank space in its place. The student must then determine the missing word based on the context and their understanding of the passage as a whole. The missing words can range from nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions, among others.
Cloze comprehension tests assess multiple aspects of reading comprehension, such as vocabulary knowledge, understanding of sentence structure, context clues, and overall comprehension of the text. They require students to not only grasp the meaning of the individual words and sentences but also to comprehend...
