“Cloze Procedure”: A New Tool for Measuring Readability
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Here is the first comprehensive statement of a research method and its theory which were introduced briefly during a workshop at the 1953 AEJ convention. Included are findings from three pilot studies and two experiments in which “cloze procedure” results are compared with those of two readability formulas.
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- Authors
- Taylor, W. L.
- Corresponding author
- Taylor, Wilson L.
- Venue
- Journalism Quarterly
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1953-09
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 415-433
- ISSN
- 0196-3031 (ISSN-L)
- 0022-5533
- OpenAlex
- W2270070752
- Cited by
- 2,332
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 13.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journalism Quarterly (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Text Readability and Simplification
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Keywords
- cloze test, readability, readability formulas, text comprehension, pilot study
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