The Cloze Procedure as a Measure of Program Understanding. | ||||
| MEJ- Mansoura Engineering Journal | ||||
| Article 3, Volume 10, Issue 1, June 1985, Page 29-51 PDF (143.58 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Research Studies | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/bfemu.2021.176856 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Ibrahim F. Eissa* 1; Said M. Selim2 | ||||
| 1Institute of Statistical Studies and Research, Cairo University, Egypt. | ||||
| 2Institute of Statistical Studies and Research, Cairo University, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The process of program understanding plays an important role in testing, and maintenance phases of software life cycle. There have been numerous investigations of the influence of various aspects of a program on program understanding, using many different measures of understanding. Some of the different measures include time to find a bug, a comprehension quiz, ability to reporduce a functionally equivalent program without notes, time to perform modification. All of these measures have some limitations. A new measure called CLOZE procedure, which has less limitations as well as other advantages such as ease of administration and grading, is investigated in this paper . The paper reports on a controlled experiment that compared CLOZE procedure and the time to find a bug as measuring program understanding. The experiment results indicated that the CLOZE procedure measure is a fair measure for program understanding. It may best be used in educational environments where computerizing test construction, as well as grading, is highly appreciated. | ||||
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