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Boston Naming Test (BNT)

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Description

A 60-item confrontation-naming assessment developed by Kaplan, Goodglass, and Weintraub that measures expressive vocabulary by asking examinees to name increasingly difficult line drawings, with stimulus and phonemic cues after errors.

Components

  • Boston Naming Test (BNT) as a measure of expressive vocabulary for adult struggling readers: The Boston Naming Test (Kaplan et al., 2001) is a 60-item confrontation naming test in which participants name line drawings of common objects presented in order of increasing difficulty, with stimulus and phonemic cues given after incorrect answers. It "has been normed on participants ages five through 79" but, as the authors note, "the BNT has not been normed on adult struggling readers and, therefore, may not be an accurate measure of their expressive vocabulary." In this study testing began at item 1 rather than the adult-recommended item 30 because prior research indicated object-naming difficulty in this population. (Hall et al. (2012))

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Key Sources

  • Hall, R., Greenberg, D., Laures-Gore, J., & Pae, H. K. (2012). The Relationship Between Expressive Vocabulary Knowledge and Reading Skills for Adult Struggling Readers. Journal of Research in Reading. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9817.2012.01537.x
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title Boston Naming Test (BNT)
description A 60-item confrontation-naming assessment developed by Kaplan, Goodglass, and Weintraub that measures expressive vocabulary by asking examinees to name increasingly difficult line drawings, with stimulus and phonemic cues after errors.
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