Appendix 1 of An Investigation of Method Effects on Reading Comprehension Test Performance

An Investigation of Method Effects on Reading Comprehension Test Performance

Appendix 1:

Starting Points for Deletion of Cloze Tests (from Kobayashi 1995: 436)

The following tables are examples of the results of one of the cloze test analyses. They show the ratio of content/function words in the 25 cloze items and further details about content word items, i.e. the number of content word items which appear elsewhere in the text and the number of content word items which appear only once in the text when the starting point for deletion changes from the 15th to 27th word from the beginning of the text. On the basis of this analysis, the starting point for deletion was chosen for each text so that the eight texts were as comparable as possible in the nature of cloze items. The starting point chosen is marked with '*'.

Text 1
Starting Point	Function Words	Content Words	Repeated Content Words	Once only
15^th word	10	10	9	6
16^th word	7	8	11	7
17^th word	15	10	8	2
*18^th word	12	13	7	6
19^th word	9	16	13	3
20^th word	14	11	7	4
21^st word	15	10	7	3
22^nd word	13	12	5	7
23^rd word	13	12	7	5
24^th word	10	15	7	8
25^th word	14	11	7	4
26^th word	12	13	7	6
27^th word	7	18	10	8

Text 2
Starting Point	Function Words	Content Words	RepeatedContent Words	Once only
15^th word	10	15	6	9
16^th word	10	15	10	5
17^th word	15	10	8	2
18^th word	15	10	5	5
19^th word	10	15	9	6
20^th word	11	14	9	5
21^st word	16	9	7	2
22^nd word	14	11	7	4
23^rd word	11	14	9	5
*24^th word	13	12	7	5
25^th word	13	12	7	5
26^th word	17	8	5	3
27^th word	11	14	8	6

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