64 college students participated in a study to examine the intercorrelationships of reading and writing measures which included The Nelson-Denny Reading Test, Form E, a randomly deleted cloze test, and the Test of Standard Written English. The latter correlated highly with the cloze and The Nelson-Denny tests, each contributing about an equal amount of common variance. The common variance between The Nelson-Denny and cloze was substantially less, so it was concluded that research at the college level should utilize both cloze and standardized reading tests to investigate the effect of sentence-combining on reading comprehension.
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