Tabulate and publish accumulated Stanford-Binet vocabulary records for young children so records can be combined and the best word order determined¶

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Evidence · 4 claims (4 for) · 1 study (1 associational), q2 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 4 claims rest on one study

Description¶

A recommendation for cumulatively improving the vocabulary test word order: examiners who have accumulated Stanford-Binet records for children of this age should tabulate and publish their data so that records can eventually be combined. The article suggests publishing "in such form that eventually they could be combined, and the best order finally determined."

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Accumulated Stanford-Binet records for children of this age

Constraints¶

• "many tabulations are required before the best order for any limited group can be attained"

Target Learners¶

• kindergarten and Grade I children being examined with the Stanford-Binet vocabulary test

Target Learning Goals¶

• determining the true order of difficulty of vocabulary test words for young children

Claims¶

• For very young children, more abstract vocabulary terms such as afloat, haste, mellow, noticeable, outward and skill are relatively more difficult, while more concrete terms such as dungeon, envelope, eyelash, nerve, plumbing, pork and snip are learned earlier. [+W]
• The Terman (Stanford Revision) vocabulary test words show an order of difficulty for kindergarten and Grade I children that is noticeably different from the order indicated on the test blank. [+W]
• The first four Terman vocabulary words appear in the same order for the kindergarten and IB subgroup as for the IA children, and the first 13 words for the two groups are the same words though in different order. [+W]
• With the original word order, several Terman vocabulary words were unknown to all examined kindergarten and Grade I children and were needlessly asked. [+W]

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Key Sources¶

• Cobb, Margaret V. (1921). Tentative Order of Difficulty of the Terman Vocabulary with Very Young Children. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Educational_Psychology