[etni] The origin of "CLOZE" - FYI
- From: "Micki Zaritsky" <mickiz@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:21:47 +0200
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"The confounding of language proficiency with innate intelligence was
especially apparent in a variety of fill-in-the-blank (cloze procedure)
used by the German psychologist, Hermann Ebbinghaus [1850-1909].
According to David Harris (1985), as early as 1897, Ebbinghaus applied
cloze procedure (more than half a century before its formal christening
by Wilson Taylor, 1953) to meaningful prose with the intent of measuring
the intelligence of school children. In the venerable tradition of
Gestalt psychology, Ebbinghaus contended that intelligence involved
linking elements so as to form coherent wholes."
from:
Language Testing Research:
Lessons Applied to LEP Students and Programs
John W. Oller, Jr., University of New Mexico
http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/pubs/symposia/second/vol1/language.htm
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