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>> So let's try to start with
advantages, what did you come up with?

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>> Easy to design.

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>> Okay, certainly compared to multiple
choice it's easier just to have a blank,

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let the student come up with an answer, okay.

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Other advantages?

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>> It also can be used to assess
different kinds of skills at the same time.

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Well, if you think of the cloze test you
assess your reading comprehension ability,

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their grammar knowledge,
and maybe their spelling.

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>> So sometimes unlike this test, you'll have
a full paragraph with words taken out of it

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and that can allow-- you have
some reading comprehension,

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assessment, as well as perhaps grammar.

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Yeah, that's a good point.

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>> And even vocabulary.

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>> And vocabulary.

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So it does give us a little more flexibility.

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>> The student, the test taker they can have
more chances to produce their abilities.

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So validity can be high.

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>> Okay, so you can also have a lot of blanks,

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the more blanks the more information
you get is more or less great, yeah.

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Vince.

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>> The answers that are produced
are student produced as supposed

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to simple student identification.

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>> Right.

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>> And they are cognitively
a little bit more demanding,

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a little bit more sophisticated is what
as far we expect students to [inaudible].

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>> Right, so it's more than just recognition.

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There is some production, it's not
completely creative, you know, generation

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but there is production going on there.

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They're coming up with something.

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>> Reliability can also be high on these tests.

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>> When?

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>> Especially if you provide the word bank,
then they have a limited number of choices,

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but we were discussing the word bank actually
and it might be important in the instructions

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to let them know if they're gonna
be using each word once only or--

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>> Yeah.

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>> -- it could be multiple times.

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>> Yeah, right.

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>> Because that could either be
confusing or maybe they'll depend

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on that one word they know how
to conjugate in every tense.

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>> Sometimes you have words that you don't
have to use at all like in the word bank.

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>> Right, right, yeah, so
there are more choices.

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>> Even a little challenging.

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>> Right, right.

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So the instructions are actually need to
be clearer or more directive than you might

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with multiple-choice 'cause there are
different things that could happen,

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what do they do with word in parenthesis
or the word from the word bank, yeah.

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So in terms of advantages or reliability,
it's probably higher, they're easier to write,

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harder for students to guess the
answer, they're producing something.