Cloze and Closure: A Second Analysis

Results of two studies of the relationship of flexibility and speed of closure with structural, lexical, and concrete/abstract cloze deletion strategies were compared. The first study used 113 high school students as subjects, and the second used 92 college students. All were given a variety of cloze tests and adapted portions of tests of associational fluency and verbal comprehension. Intercorrelations were computed for each experimental group, and factor analyses were made. Marked differences were noted between the high school and college groups. The high school sample had 65 of 66 significant (p.05) correlations, while the college sample had 32 of 66. Fifteen of the 16 perceptual ability correlations were significant for the high school sample compared to five for the college sample, all verbal ability measures were significant for the high school sample compared to 10 of 16 for th