>> So let's try to start with advantages, what did you come up with?
>> Easy to design.
>> Okay, certainly compared to multiple choice it's easier just to have a blank,
let the student come up with an answer, okay.
Other advantages?
>> It also can be used to assess different kinds of skills at the same time.
Well, if you think of the cloze test you assess your reading comprehension ability,
their grammar knowledge, and maybe their spelling.
>> So sometimes unlike this test, you'll have a full paragraph with words taken out of it
and that can allow-- you have some reading comprehension,
assessment, as well as perhaps grammar.
Yeah, that's a good point.
>> And even vocabulary.
>> And vocabulary.
So it does give us a little more flexibility.
>> The student, the test taker they can have more chances to produce their abilities.
So validity can be high.
>> Okay, so you can also have a lot of blanks,
the more blanks the more information you get is more or less great, yeah.
Vince.
>> The answers that are produced are student produced as supposed
to simple student identification.
>> Right.
>> And they are cognitively a little bit more demanding,
a little bit more sophisticated is what as far we expect students to [inaudible].
>> Right, so it's more than just recognition.
There is some production, it's not completely creative, you know, generation
but there is production going on there.
They're coming up with something.
>> Reliability can also be high on these tests.
>> When?
>> Especially if you provide the word bank, then they have a limited number of choices,
but we were discussing the word bank actually and it might be important in the instructions
to let them know if they're gonna be using each word once only or--
>> Yeah.
>> -- it could be multiple times.
>> Yeah, right.
>> Because that could either be confusing or maybe they'll depend
on that one word they know how to conjugate in every tense.
>> Sometimes you have words that you don't have to use at all like in the word bank.
>> Right, right, yeah, so there are more choices.
>> Even a little challenging.
>> Right, right.
So the instructions are actually need to be clearer or more directive than you might
with multiple-choice 'cause there are different things that could happen,
what do they do with word in parenthesis or the word from the word bank, yeah.
So in terms of advantages or reliability, it's probably higher, they're easier to write,
harder for students to guess the answer, they're producing something.