This study sought to determine the feasibility of using cloze test data to improve the effectiveness of instructional lessons as a part of the formative evaluation process. Two groups of instructional designers were used to revise a science lesson, with three designers in each group. One group, the cloze group, received both cloze test data and performance test data. The other group, the non-cloze group, received only performance test data. / The six revised lessons were randomly given to a group of 251 sixth grade students. Performance test scores were collected to measure the effectiveness of the lessons in teaching the objectives of the lesson and cloze test scores were collected to measure the comprehensibility of the lessons. / First, t-tests were used to compare the cloze lessons and the non-cloze lessons. There were no significant differences between the two groups on either the cloze test scores or the performance test scores. / Next, the six revised lessons were compared using an ANOVA procedure. The six lessons differed significantly on the cloze test scores but not on the performance test scores. / The six revised lessons all had cloze test scores higher than the original lesson but none of the lessons had cloze scores high enough to meet the suggested criterion for instructional level. The performance test scores did not differ very much from the original lesson. These findings suggest that the revisions were more comprehensible but no more effective in teaching the objectives of the lesson. / The study suggests possible reasons for the findings as well as suggestions for further research. While this study did not result in findings to justify the use of cloze tests in formative evaluation, cloze appears to be a valid and reliable test of comprehensibility of text and thus deserves further consideration as part of the formative evaluation of instructional materials. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-12, Section: A, page: 3547. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75241 |
| Contributors | LOEWE, EUNICE ERNA., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 161 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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