Using the cloze procedure to assess program reading comprehension

Authors:
Eileen B. Entin
Affiliations:
Wentworth Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department, 550 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
Venue:
SIGSCE '84 Proceedings of the fifteenth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Year:
1984

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Abstract

This paper discusses the feasibility of using cloze procedure to assess program reading comprehension. Two Pascal programs were prepared as cloze tests and administered to introductory computer science students. Scores on the cloze tests were found to be positively related to other measures of program reading comprehension. A number of procedural and methodological issues are raised, but, overall, the results indicate that the cloze procedure can be used to assess program reading comprehension and, perhaps, program complexity as well.