Although there are many methods available for assessing text comprehension, the cloze test is not widely acknowledged as one of them. Critiques on cloze testing center on its supposedly limited ability to measure comprehension beyond the sentence. However, these critiques do not hold for all types of cloze tests; the particular configuration of a cloze determines its validity. We review various cloze configurations and discuss their strengths and weaknesses. We propose a new cloze procedure specifically designed to gauge text comprehension: the Hybrid Text Comprehension cloze (HyTeC-cloze). It employs a hybrid mechanical-rational deletion strategy and semantic scoring of answers. The procedure was tested in a large-scale study, involving 2926 Dutch secondary school students with 120 unique cloze tests. Our results show that, in terms of reliability and validity, the HyTeC-cloze matches and sometimes outperforms standardized tests of reading ability.

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用于理解评估的完形填空测试：HyTeC-完形填空

尽管有许多方法可用于评估文本理解，但完形填空测试并未被广泛认为是其中之一。对完形填空测试的批评主要集中在它衡量句子之外理解能力的有限能力。然而，这些批评并不适用于所有类型的完形填空测试。完形填空的特定配置决定了它的有效性。我们回顾了各种完形填空配置并讨论了它们的优点和缺点。我们提出了一种专门用于衡量文本理解的新完形填空程序：混合文本理解完形填空（HyTeC-完形填空）。它采用混合机械-理性删除策略和答案的语义评分。该程序在一项大规模研究中进行了测试，涉及 2926 名荷兰中学生，并进行了 120 次独特的完形填空测试。我们的结果表明，