Book-cover recognition test¶
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Evidence · 3 claims (3 for) · 1 study (1 associational),q3· 0 of 1 report an effect size · 3 claims rest on one study
Description¶
A child-completed picture-book familiarity assessment developed by Davidse et al. that uses book covers and coded story knowledge to measure young children's exposure to books.
Components¶
- Book-cover recognition test as a proximal measure of children's book exposure: A child-completed test in which children are shown covers of 41 familiar Dutch picture storybooks and asked who the characters are, what the story is called, and what it is about; coders judge whether the child is acquainted with the book, excluding mere knowledge of merchandised characters. The article presents it as "a new instrument—the book-cover recognition test—as a proximal measure of children's book exposure in research and individual assessments of children's literacy environment". In this study it mediated the HLE–literacy relationship and outperformed questionnaire-based HLE measures. (Davidse et al. (2010))
Claims¶
- Children's storybook knowledge (book-cover recognition) mediates the relationship between home literacy environment and literacy outcomes [+M]
- Book-cover recognition predicts vocabulary and letter knowledge even after controlling for intelligence and cognitive control [+M]
- Book exposure predicts letter knowledge (about 6% of variance), consistent with meta-analytic evidence that print-related skills improve even from story-content-focused reading [+W]
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Key Sources¶
- Davidse, N. J., de Jong, M. T., Bus, A. G., Huijbregts, S. C. J., & Swaab, H. (2010). Cognitive and environmental predictors of early literacy skills. Read Writ 24, 395–412. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-010-9233-3
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Book-cover recognition test |
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A child-completed picture-book familiarity assessment developed by Davidse et al. |
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