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Heze College, Heze, China

ABSTRACT

This paper conducts a comparative study on the measuring capacity of the three types of cloze tests where the comparison variables of difficulty, discriminability, reliability, and validity were calculated and analyzed. The findings from the research are drawn as follows: Firstly, the test-takers have a significant difference, on the results of the three types of cloze tests, that the test-takers perform much better on the multiple-choice cloze while having the worst performance on open cloze. Secondly, based on the comparison of the variables of difficulty, discriminability, reliability, and validity, it can be concluded that both open cloze and banked cloze have the desirable measuring capacity with strong discriminability power, high reliability and validity, while the most frequently used multiple-choice cloze does not perform a satisfied result on all of the comparison variables. Thirdly, open cloze yields the most effective and reliable results in measuring the test-takers’ overall language proficiency.

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multiple-choice cloze, open cloze, banked cloze, measuring capacity

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