The Conceptual Nature of Gain in Vocabulary Research: An Analysis of Vocabulary Data from Schoolchildren

Autor:	Ernst Ottem, Claire White, Solveig Alma Helaas Lyster, Bente Eriksen Hagtvet, Jørgen Frost, Catherine E. Snow
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Vocabulary media_common.quotation_subject Knowledge level Interim Teaching method Word recognition Cognition Variance (accounting) Psychology Vocabulary development Education media_common Developmental psychology
Zdroj:	Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. 58:495-511
ISSN:	1470-1170 0031-3831
DOI:	10.1080/00313831.2013.773560
Popis:	Two ways of measuring change are presented and compared: A conventional “change score”, defined as the difference between scores before and after an interim period, and a process-oriented approach focusing on detailed analysis of conceptually defined response patterns. The validity of the two approaches was investigated. Vocabulary knowledge was assessed by means of equivalent multiple-choice tests administered before and after an intervention, and four characteristic responses were observed: Words consistently not understood; words inconsistently understood; learned words; and words consistently understood. The results showed that inclusion of the category “words consistently not understood” offered a “truer” gain score than did the conventional change score. It captured more variance from age and cognitive constraints and appeared educationally more reliable from an assessment-for-teaching-perspective.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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