Cloze Procedure and DRP Format Flashcards

The DRP cloze format is described as 'modified' compared to traditional cloze tests because:

Answer: Students select from provided word choices rather than supplying their own words

Traditional cloze tests require students to write in missing words from memory; the DRP modifies this by offering multiple-choice options, removing the spelling and recall burden.

Why does the DRP provide answer choices for cloze blanks rather than requiring students to write missing words?

Answer: To reduce the influence of spelling ability on reading comprehension scores

Providing choices eliminates the confound of spelling skill, ensuring the score reflects reading comprehension rather than a student's ability to recall and spell words.

In the DRP, distractor answer choices for each blank are typically designed to be:

Answer: Grammatically plausible but semantically incorrect in context

Distractors fit grammatically but do not preserve the passage's meaning, requiring students to use full contextual comprehension to identify the correct choice.

Which aspect of reading ability does the DRP cloze format most directly assess?

Answer: Constructing meaning from contextual text information

The DRP measures whether students can use the surrounding text to derive meaning — a construct known as constructive or functional reading comprehension.

When a student encounters a blank in a DRP passage, the surrounding text primarily serves to:

Answer: Provide context clues that help identify the correct word

The surrounding sentences and paragraph supply context that a proficient reader uses to determine which word best fits the blank.

The DRP cloze procedure most closely aligns with which reading model or theory?

Answer: Interactive or constructivist models of reading comprehension

The DRP reflects interactive/constructivist models by requiring readers to integrate lower-level decoding with higher-level contextual inference to select correct words.

What does it mean when a student's performance drops sharply on DRP passages of a particular difficulty level?

Answer: The student has reached their independent reading ceiling for that text level

A sharp performance drop indicates the student can no longer use context effectively at that difficulty, marking the upper boundary of functional reading comprehension.