Table of Contents
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY IN LANGUAGE TESTING
READABILITY FORMULAE
THE FAMILY OF CLOZE TESTS
THE COH-METRIX PROJECT
LEXICAL ANALYSIS
CONCLUSION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
REFERENCES
APPENDIX
INDEX
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John Ludbrook (Editor)
The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia
Series: Mathematics Research Developments
BISAC: MAT000000
The family of cloze tests is designed to evaluate grammar, vocabulary and reading comprehension by making use of communication theory and the redundancy principle. The most popular are the classical cloze procedure and the C-test. Both are reasonably reliable, but the former is arguably the more valid.
Both have been used in many countries and many languages as part of the testing of scholastic ability in the candidates’ native languages or in second languages, though using trained assessors remains the yardstick. The Coh-Metrix project examines the coherence of text according to 60 categories, but is still in the course of development and seems not to be flawless. This new book discusses nine popular readability formulae which evaluate a piece of English text in terms of the age or grade level of school students. (Imprint: Nova)
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY IN LANGUAGE TESTING
READABILITY FORMULAE
THE FAMILY OF CLOZE TESTS
THE COH-METRIX PROJECT
LEXICAL ANALYSIS
CONCLUSION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
REFERENCES
APPENDIX
INDEX
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