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After COVID, students fell behind in reading. Yet schools still use a 1953 test that penalizes responses that demonstrate understanding—but aren’t exact matches.

Lay Summary The cloze test has been in use for 70 years to assess reading comprehension in several languages. It involves removing words from a text and analyzing how well participants fill in the gaps, which helps identify their reading proficiency levels.

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