Response process validity in the Cloze test

Authors

  • Neide de Brito Cunha Universidade São Francisco
  • Acácia Aparecida Angeli dos Santos Universidade São Francisco

Keywords:

psychological assessment, Cloze test, reading comprehension, psychometrics, response process

Abstract

Based in the response process validity evidence, this study explored quality of children's mistakes on the Cloze test. The sample was composed by 266 children, boys and girls, aging from 8 to 13 years old, attending at the third and fourth grades of the elementary education of public and private schools of São Paulo, Brazil. Two protocols groups were formed: of the children with high and low means to construct a errors scale, for the least to most serious: blank, phonological, lexical, syntactic and semantic. The results showed that children with high means test presented lexical mistakes, while children with low means made semantic mistakes. Although the response process validity evidence was finding, by the homogeneously evaluation on the errors distribution types, it's necessary to extend the knowledge of psychometric characteristics of the Cloze test.

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Author Biographies

Neide de Brito Cunha, Universidade São Francisco

Doutora em Psicologia, na área de Avaliação Psicológica Educacional, pela Universidade São Francisco - Itatiba. Professora adjunta doutora da Universidade São Francisco.

Acácia Aparecida Angeli dos Santos, Universidade São Francisco

Professora titular do curso de graduação e do Programa de Pós-Graduação Stricto Sensu em Psicologia da Universidade São Francisco.

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Published

2009-12-30

How to Cite

CUNHA, N. DE B.; SANTOS, A. A. A. DOS. Response process validity in the Cloze test. Fractal: Journal of Psychology, v. 21, n. 3, p. 549-562, 30 Dec. 2009.

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 3 (2009)

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