cloze

[klohz] /kloʊz/
adjective
1.
pertaining to or being a procedure used to measure comprehension or text difficulty, in which a person is called upon to supply elements that have been systematically deleted from a text.
noun
2.
a cloze procedure or test.
Origin
1953; back formation from closure (def 10), respelling to make it distinct from close
Can be confused
close, cloth, clothe, clothes, cloze (see synonym study at close)
Examples from the web for cloze
  • Sample forms are provided to demonstrate the use of the cloze technique and observational techniques.
  • The test uses two distinct item formats: true-false items and modified cloze items with two options.
  • The test is a modified version of the cloze procedure.
Word Origin and History for cloze
n.

1953, in psychological writing, evidently abstracted from the pronunciation of closure.