FTCE Professional Education Practice Exam

What type of assessment includes passages with omitted words to gauge overall language skill?

1. Formative Assessment

2. CLOZE Testing

3. Summative Assessment

4. Performance Assessment

The correct answer is: CLOZE Testing

CLOZE testing is designed specifically to assess a person's overall language skills by presenting passages with certain words omitted. This type of assessment requires the individual to fill in the blanks with appropriate words, which helps to evaluate their understanding of context, vocabulary, and syntactic structure. It is not just about correcting specific errors, but rather capturing a broader range of language abilities, including reading comprehension and grammatical knowledge. CLOZE testing can be particularly useful in educational settings, as it can provide insights into a student's language proficiency and their ability to infer meaning from context. This type of assessment is often used in foreign language learning, reading programs, and other contexts where understanding the overall flow and meaning of language is essential. In contrast, formative assessment occurs throughout the learning process to monitor student progress and inform instruction, summative assessment evaluates student learning at the end of an instructional unit, and performance assessment requires students to demonstrate knowledge or skills through real-world tasks rather than answering fill-in-the-blank questions. These other types of assessments focus on different aspects of learning and may not specifically measure the same skills as CLOZE testing does.