Weekly grammar cloze testing produced no significant difference in grammar knowledge compared with weekly grammar multiple-choice testing among Iranian pre-university EFL students¶

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q2 i? After a 10-week weekly testing treatment, there was no significant difference between the mean post-test grammar scores of the cloze-test group and the multiple-choice-test group. → Minoo Alemi & Apama Miraghaee 2011

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Minoo Alemi & Apama Miraghaee 2011¶

Minoo Alemi & Apama Miraghaee. (2011). A Comparative Study of Testing Grammar Knowledge of Iranian Students between Cloze and Multiple-Choice Tests. i-manager's Journal of English Language Teaching, Vol. 1, No. 3, July - September 2011. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1071285

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Quasi-experimental pretest-posttest non-equivalent-groups study: 75 Iranian pre-university EFL students in two intact groups received ten weekly 25-item grammar tests (cloze vs multiple-choice), then a 60-item post-test. The t-test found "no significant difference between the mean scores" of the two groups; equivalence was not tested.

"Since the t-observed does not equate or exceed the t-critical value for rejection of the null hypothesis at both 0.01 and 0.05 levels of significance for 73 degrees of freedom, the hypothesis is not rejected."

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