Ulusoy, MustafaÇetinkaya, Çetin2020-04-302020-04-3020122536-4758https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12684/5191WOS: 000308389500040The main purpose of this study was to determine the reliability and validity of Sentence Verification Technique (SVT) by using texts that were at the sixth, seventh and eighth grade levels and examine how SVT measured seventh grade students' reading and listening levels. One hundred-eighty-five seventh-grade students randomly selected from three different middle-income schools in the city of Ankara participated in the research. Listening and reading SVT tests were conducted in randomly selected two classrooms. The pilot study of this research showed that SVT was a reliable method to measure Turkish students' reading and listening skills. Cloze tests results were also used to determine the readability levels of texts. Cloze and SVT tests showed similar results and SVT tests successfully discriminated seventh and eighth grade texts. These results showed that SVT was a valid measure of listening and reading skills of Turkish students.trinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccesssentence verification techniquereadinglisteningcomprehensionArticle43460471WOS:000308389500040Q4