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Comparison of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale in School Age Children
… of mean differences between MAs and IQs of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and Revised Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale (both 1960 and 1972 norms) were investigated in a sample of 225 school age children. It was found that MAs of two instruments were more highly correlated than the IQs. For …
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An Investigation of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and Selected Procedures for Evaluating Word Acquisition by a Group of First-Grade Children
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The Effects of an Intensive Language Development Program on the Expressive and Receptive Language of Kindergarten Children
… The design of this study was a one group pretest, posttest design. This study consisted of approximately twenty-five kindergarten children from a rural community. Each student was pretested individually using the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (Form A), the Test of Language Development, and …
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The Effects of Early Education on the Receptive Language Development of Kindergarten Children
… school on a military base in the southeast. The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test- Revised (PPVT-R) was administered to all subjects. The t test for independent means was computed; no significant differences in mean scores existed between the two groups. Further analyses of the subjects were made …
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Effects of Computerized Storybooks on Early Literacy Development of Preschool Children with Weak Self-Regulation Skills
… Personality Questionnaire-Short Form (CTPQ-SF), Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT),Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening for Preschoolers (PALS-PreK) - the Print and Word Awareness subtest, an expressive vocabulary posttest, and a story retelling posttest. Both universally designed …
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Language Dysfunction in Traumatic Brain Injury While Controlling for Effort
… Scale-III Verbal Comprehension Index and the Vocabulary, Similarities, Information, and Comprehension subtests; the Boston Naming Test; the Phonemic and Semantic cue conditions of the Controlled Oral Word Association Test; the Auditory Comprehension subtest of the Cognistat; Wide Range …
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Rewards, locus of control and ideational fluency in preschool children
… children were initially administered the Revised Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and the Preschool and Primary Nowicki-Strickland Internal-External Scale. Based on a median split of the locus of control measure, the children were assigned to either a reward or non-reward condition for the second …
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EMOTION REGULATION, EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING, AND UNDERSTANDING OF INTENTIONALITY IN CHILDREN WITH A HISTORY OF PEDIATRIC CANCER
… study. The children completed 4 tasks: the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Silly Sounds, Secret Sharing, and Identifying Intentionality. Parents were asked to complete brief questionnaires. Differences were found between various parent measures as well as cognitive ability and identifying …
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Individual differences in rural children's video word learning
… Children subsequently completed two tasks: the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-III and a basic video word learning task. Findings indicate that children from the two populations were dramatically different on all individual difference factors but that both populations were similarly successful …
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Language as a Mediator between Home Environment and Prefrontal Functioning in Early Childhood
… Language, in turn, was assessed through the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT-III). The criteria proposed by Baron and Kenny (1986) were followed to test for the mediational hypothesis, as well as an alternative hypothesis stating that working memory might mediate the relation between …
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What not to swear: how do children learn bad words?
… that source. Participants also completed the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) as a measure of receptive vocabulary. Results revealed both older and younger children learn taboo words, but only younger children did so at rate greater than object words. Additionally, taboo words were the …
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The Effects of Word Instruction During Classroom Read-Alouds on the Acquisition of Vocabulary
… Talk during read-aloud to increase the receptive vocabulary of participants. The investigator read six picturebooks to two groups of kindergarteners. Group A had 21 participants and Group B had 20 participants. Each group received instruction on two different sets of target vocabulary words, three …
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Vocabulary Assessment: A Comparison Between Clinical And Academic Measures
<p>Researchers have shown vocabulary knowledge to be highly linked to reading comprehension, and ultimately a strong predictor of academic success. Therefore, students' vocabulary skills should be carefully monitored and assessed as the demands of education increase. </p> <p>The purpose of this …
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Language development among autistic children in integrated and special education settings
… also served as participants. Both quantitative (Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test - Third Edition) and qualitative methodologies were used to assess the children's language abilities. Two observational methods were used. Specimen descriptions recorded baseline reports of each participant's language …
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Should Modality Be a Consideration in the Selection of an Approach to Beginning Reading?
… strength as determined by an informal modality test. In their kindergarten year, 60 middle-class children with at least average intelligence were given three readiness tests, the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Metropolitan Readiness Tests, and an informal modality test. Children were grouped …
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Exploring the Sequence of Establishing Derived Relational Responding in Children with Global Developmental Delay
… Program, VB-MAPP; the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test, K-BIT; and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, PPVT) following which they were exposed to relational responding testing and training in the following sequence: co-ordination, distinction, comparison, opposition and hierarchy. All children …
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An Investigation of the Additive Benefits of Parent Dialogic Reading Techniques in Older Preschool Children
… subject research design, as was as well as pre-test and post-test measures. Five preschoolers age-eligible to begin kindergarten the following school year participated. The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Fourth Edition (PPVT-4) and Expressive Vocabulary Test, Second Edition (EVT-2) were …
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Utility of traditional cognitive measures in the prediction of neuropsychological dysfunction in children
… (WISC-R), Wide Range Achievement Test-Revised (WRAT-R) and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised (PPVT-R) would be used to predict the subjects' neuropsychological status. It was found that 12 variables added significantly (R < .05) to the prediction of impairment, with …
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Predicting Academic Achievement from Classroom Behaviors
… were measured using reading and math subtests from the Woodcock-Johnson Psychoeducational Battery. The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) in first grade, and the Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) in third grade, were used as standardized measures of …
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