Developing a Cloze
Procedure as a
I
Ketut Seken
The
project was concerned with developing a cloze procedure as a reading comprehension
achievement test. The subjects that the test was aimed at were students of the
English Education Department of the Faculty of Letters, State University of
Malang, who were halfway in the semester to complete Reading II course. The
test was carefully planned and was constructed on the foundation of existing
theory of cloze test construction. A review of theory concerning reading
comprehension, testing reading comprehension, and cloze testing led to the
construction of the test, including the decision concerning how to score the
test and to interpret the scores. Using a class of 28 students, the test was
tried out a week after the mid-semester test was administered on them by the
Reading II teacher. It was found that the test is sufficiently reliable on the
basis of a reliability coefficient of .79 through split-half procedure and a
coefficient value of .78 by K-R 20. The test also showed high inter-section
correlation. The validity of the test was viewed in terms of face, content, and
construct. The test scores correlate moderately with those obtained on the
mid-semester test by the teacher. Some problems are discussed and a suggestion
made with regard to a possible solution to these problems.
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Seken, I K. (2003, October). Developing a cloze
procedure as a reading comprehension achievement test. Paper presented at
the 51st TEFLIN International Conference,
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