A test or exercise where words are removed from a text and students must fill them in, used to measure reading comprehension.
From German 'Schließung' (closure), coined by Wilson Taylor in 1953 for a psychology test. The term is based on the principle of 'closure'—how readers fill in missing information.
Cloze tests reveal how much we read with our brains predicting what comes next rather than actually reading every word—you probably don't notice when words are _____, and that's exactly what the test measures.
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