A Recognition Test of Vocabulary Using Signal-Detection Measures and Some Correlates of Word and Nonword Recognition.

Autor/inn/en	Zimmerman, Joel; und weitere
Institution	Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL.
Titel	A Recognition Test of Vocabulary Using Signal-Detection Measures and Some Correlates of Word and Nonword Recognition.
Quelle	(1973), (58 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	College Students; Educational Research; Educational Testing; Orthographic Symbols; Vocabulary; Word Frequency; Word Recognition + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Wortschatz; Word analysis; Frequency; Wortanalyse; Häufigkeit; Worterkennung
Abstract	In the first of three experiments, university undergraduates were presented a list of 300 words and 100 nonwords in two sessions. Their confidence that an item was a word was indicated for each item on a six-point scale. This experiment demonstrated the feasibility of creating a recognition test of vocabulary. In Experiment 2, 100 items were chosen to form a subtest, and the subtest was cross validated on a new sample of subjects. The test in Experiments 1 and 2 were scored using signal-detection measures. The primary criterion, SAT (verbal) scores, correlated approximately .60 with the test scores. In Experiment 3 subjects scaled the words and nonwords for four psychological attributes. These were submitted to a stepwise regression analysis with the confidence ratings from Experiment 1 as the dependent variable. It was concluded that associability, frequency, orthography, and pronounceability all may be components of word recognition. However, only frequency was found to be a significant predictor of the confidence of recognition of nonwords. (Author)
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Update	2004/1/01