A Comparison of Cloze Ability in Deficient and Non-Deficient Readers Matched According to Verbal Ability
Description:
The present study was designed to investigate whether a good reader, by the fifth grade, will have attained sufficient knowledge of the language structure to enable him to more exactly and more appropriately reconstruct mutilated texts than a poor reader, matched for verbal intelligence level. Four 250-word cloze-treated passages were administered to twelve deficient and twelve non-deficient sixth grade readers, matched according to sex and the verbal portion of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale …
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Date:
May 1974
Creator:
Berrier, Helen Victoria
Partner:
UNT Libraries