El test cloze en la evaluacion de la comprensión del texto informativo de nivel universitario

in a sample of 114 students of educational sciences, universidad nacional de cuyo, cloze test’s potentiality to assess reading comprehension of expository text is measured and correlation with academic performance is established. the median difficulty index is 0.67, so it results slightly easier than statistical theory recommendation (between 0.5 and 0.6) for educational settings. it reaches a meaningful correlation of 0.51 with academic performance.