Oral reading error correction behavior and cloze performance

Abstract

Seven measures of oral reading error correction behavior are examined in relation to comprehension as measured by cloze performance. Two ratio measures; (1) the percent of successfully corrected errors divided by the percent of uncorrected semantically unacceptable errors; and (2) the percent of successfully corrected errors divided by the sum of percents of uncorrected and unsuccessfully corrected errors; prove to be significantly correlated with post oral‐reading cloze test scores. The percent of successfully corrected errors is shown to be moderately correlated with post‐oral reading cloze test scores. Four other measures investigated yield low correlations with post‐oral reading cloze test scores. The study is methodological in that it explores new measures and a way of constructing new measures of correction behavior in oral reading.