First-year Latin vocabulary scores vary widely across ten good high schools, from 90 percent correct to 42 percent correct on the Latin-English list¶
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q2 i? Median scores on the 100-word Latin-English vocabulary test ranged from 45 (90 percent correct) to 21 (42 percent correct) across ten first-year classes. → V. A. C. Henmon 1917
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V. A. C. Henmon 1917¶
V. A. C. Henmon. (1917). The Measurement of Ability in Latin. Part I. Vocabulary. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22The+Measurement+of+Ability+in+Latin%22+Henmon
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Administration of the 100-word Latin Vocabulary Test to 252 first-year pupils in ten schools in June, with medians reported per school in Table I. The article describes "the great variation shown in the first year classes in ten very good high schools."
"The striking thing about this table is the great variation shown in the first year classes in ten very good high schools from a score of 45 or 90 percent correct to 21 or 42 percent correct in the Latin-English list"
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Related Claims¶
- Even fourth-year Latin pupils fall considerably short of a perfect score on the easy 239-word standard vocabulary test — related
- Vocabulary test scores correlate moderately with teachers' final Latin grades, averaging .56 for Latin-English and .66 for English-Latin — related
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First-year Latin vocabulary scores vary widely across ten good high schools, from 90 percent correct to 42 percent correct on the Latin-English list |
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First-year Latin vocabulary scores vary widely across ten good high schools, from 90 percent correct to 42 percent correct on the Latin-English list |
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