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Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research

1994

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Patterns Of Interaction In The Lexical Development In Two Languages Of Bilingual Infants, Barbara Pearson, Sylvia Fernandez Dec 1993

Patterns Of Interaction In The Lexical Development In Two Languages Of Bilingual Infants, Barbara Pearson, Sylvia Fernandez

Barbara Zurer Pearson

We investigated the extent to which bilingual children follow the same patterns and timetable of lexical development as monolinguals. For a group of 20 simultaneous bilingual (English-Spanish) infants, ages 10 to 30 months, we looked at the patterns of growth in one language in relation to growth in the other and also with respect to growth in both languages combined. The MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDI), standardized parent report forms in Spanish and English, provided measures of lexical growth in two languages at varying intervals within the age range. We plotted the two single-language measures, as well as Total and …

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Measurement And Judgment In Curriculum Assessment Systems, Glen Rogers Dec 1993

Measurement And Judgment In Curriculum Assessment Systems, Glen Rogers

Glen Rogers

While educators show increasing interest in performance assessment, many measurement specialists express alarm over implications for increased costs. When we see ourselves as assessment practitioners who are collaboratively working with educators to create integrated assessment systems, however, we must first rethink relationships among our measurement, curriculum development, and institutional assessment goals before we can understand what assessment costs are implied. The quality of the contribution of assessment practitioners depends on their knowing when to pursue measurement, and when instead to facilitate coordinated human judgment.

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