The reliability of language performance measurement in language sample analysis of children aged 5-6 years

Autor: Zahra Soleymani, Shahin Nematzadeh, Laya Gholami Tehrani, Mehdi Rahgozar
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Auditory and Vestibular Research, Vol 23, Iss 1 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2423-480X
Popis: Background and Aim: The language sample analysis (LSA) is more common in other languages than Persian to study language development and assess language pathology. We studied some psychometric properties of language sample analysis in this research such as content validity of written story and its pictures, test-retest reliability, and inter-rater reliability. Methods: We wrote a story based on Persian culture from Schneider’s study. The validity of written story and drawn pictures was approved by experts. To study test-retest reliability, 30 children looked at the pictures and told their own story twice with 7-10 days interval. Children generated the story themselves and tester did not give any cue about the story. Their audio-taped story was transcribed and analyzed. Sentence and word structures were detected in the analysis. Results: Mean of experts' agreement with the validity of written story was 92.28 percent. Experts scored the quality of pictures high and excellent. There was correlation between variables in sentence and word structure (p
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