In a study tracking children from age 3 through middle school, David Dickinson, now a professor of education at Vanderbilt University, and Catherine Snow, an education professor at Harvard University, found that a child's
score on a vocabulary test in kindergarten could predict reading comprehension scores in later grades.
When they are done, I have
them score themselves on the vocabulary knowledge step, and then I go back and check how well they performed with context clue understanding.
Not exact matches
According to people's
scores on multiple - choice
vocabulary tests, most of us don't reach our peak wordsmith - ing abilities until we're in our late 60s or early 70s.
I
scored in the top 4 %
on my GRE, but they test for
vocabulary after high school.
Focus
on building your child's
vocabulary - A child's
vocabulary scores are often reflective of their overall... [Read More...]
When kids eat breakfast they demonstrate broader
vocabularies, improved memory and faster speed
on cognitive tests, and they
score higher in both reading and math.
In other words, 1) the level of the parents» skill seems to have a greater effect
on the child's development than anything else, 2) higher quality child care leads to high
vocabulary scores and 3) the more time a child spends in childcare, the more likely she is to misbehave or resort to behaviors like biting or hitting.
In a convenience sample of 45 children during a 1 - week training workshop provided by child psychologists and psychiatrists, inter-paediatrician agreement was high, with Pearson correlation coefficients of 0.80 (95 % confidence interval: 0.67, 0.89) for
vocabulary, 0.72 (0.54, 0.83) for similarities, 0.80 (0.67, 0.89) for block designs and 0.79 (0.66, 0.88) for matrices.16 Since we previously reported that the intervention resulted in significantly higher verbal IQ
scores in intention - to - treat analysis, 16 we focused
on results for verbal IQ
scores in the present study.
Results Adjusting for sociodemographics, maternal intelligence, and home environment in linear regression, longer breastfeeding duration was associated with higher Peabody Picture
Vocabulary Test
score at age 3 years (0.21; 95 % CI, 0.03 - 0.38 points per month breastfed) and with higher intelligence
on the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test at age 7 years (0.35; 0.16 - 0.53 verbal points per month breastfed; and 0.29; 0.05 - 0.54 nonverbal points per month breastfed).
By the fall of their kindergarten year, children who participated in Head Start and the REDI - P group
scored higher than the children in the control group
on several measures, showing greater increases in their
vocabulary, literacy skills, reading fluency and academic performance upon entering kindergarten.
Scored lightly by a series of Brian Eno compositions, The Jacket is an apocalyptic poem of love and loss that's unusually wise about its visual
vocabulary — about ways of looking, the line between dreaming and reality, and how eyes
on film can be a powerful and elastic metaphor for the audience engaged in a kind of liquid dreaming.
Uccelli and Paez found that,
on average, first - grade English narrative quality
scores were higher among children who, at kindergarten
scored higher
on the English
vocabulary test, used a greater number of distinct words in their English narrative, and had higher story structure
scores on their Spanish narrative.
This strategy should raise their standardized test
scores, since researchers estimate that «85 percent of achievement test
scores are based
on the
vocabulary of the standards.»
Those in their seventies nonetheless
scored higher than participants in any other age range
on tests of
vocabulary, a key component of crystallized knowledge.
Tileston, D.) has clearly established that students will achieve higher
scores on standardized tests if they know the
vocabulary of the standards.
Across all five plays we found that students randomly assigned to see live theater
scored significantly higher than the control students
on measures of tolerance and social perspective taking as well as a test of their knowledge of the play's plot and
vocabulary.
Choose the section
on credit, and you'll get a complete unit, including an outline, the standards it meets,
vocabulary, and lessons that range from how to choose a card to the meaning of credit
scores.
The SAT college admission test will no longer require a timed essay, will dwell less
on fancy
vocabulary, and will return to the familiar 1600 - point
scoring scale in a major overhaul intended to open doors to higher education for students who are now shut out.
Print exposure, as measured by the number of words children read
on the READ 180 computer lessons, explained 4 % of the variance in
vocabulary and 2 % of the variance in word reading efficiency after all pretest reading
scores were partialed out.
The results, published in 2007 in the Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, showed that the storytelling students
scored significantly better
on vocabulary and reading «readiness» tests than the control group.
Students who
score well
on the verbal SAT invariably possess a broad
vocabulary that represents broad general knowledge - which is hardly surprising, given that the verbal SAT is essentially an advanced
vocabulary test.
Similarly, students with the lowest
vocabulary scores were those who were in the bottom quarter (at or below the 25th percentile) in reading comprehension.8 This means those additional 12 million words could potentially have a huge impact
on student success.
The rankings in the first - of - its - kind report are based
on vocabulary scores of fourth and eighth graders
on the 2011 National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) in reading.
And while the research is clear
on what most students require to build
vocabulary (12 spaced multimodal encounters with a word), many schools ignore the research and reading
scores suffer.
Outcome measures included reading comprehension, reading
vocabulary, language mechanics, and language expression subscales from the CAT, and
scores on an index of reading awareness.
On a verbally administered test, even profoundly dyslexic kids can score high on a verbal section if they are exposed to vocabulary in other way
On a verbally administered test, even profoundly dyslexic kids can
score high
on a verbal section if they are exposed to vocabulary in other way
on a verbal section if they are exposed to
vocabulary in other ways.
I wish the
vocabulary «game» that they work
on while waiting for their cold read had a
score that was reported to me.
Conversely, kids with auditory issues (CAPD / APD) or hearing problems may
score lower
on the verbal side due to the lack of exposure to language and
vocabulary due to their weakness.
Later follow - up results as of second and third grade found that «Males who had attended preschool
scored significantly higher
on the reading
vocabulary, total reading, spelling, total language, and total battery components of achievement measures than did males who had not attended preschool.»
If a student
scores well
on text - to - text (questions during reading) but lower
on text understanding (questions after reading), it is possible that the student has adequate word recognition and
vocabulary skills, but needs to learn how to synthesize information from different parts of a passage.
The effect of the Multiple Exposure
Vocabulary Method and the Target Reading / Writing Strategy
on test
scores.
Building a rich
vocabulary will help students with reading comprehension and writing higher - quality essays to improve
scores on the critical reading and writing components of the ACT and SAT exams.
You can a) bring a Scrabble ® board game (including letter tiles) into the classroom and use it with the
Vocabulary Scrabblez
Score Sheet or b) project letter tiles with their point values on the board and use it with the score s
Score Sheet or b) project letter tiles with their point values
on the board and use it with the
score s
score sheet.
The point of this example is that knowledge of content and of the
vocabulary acquired through learning about content are fundamental to successful reading comprehension; without broad knowledge, children's reading comprehension will not improve and their
scores on reading comprehension tests will not budge upwards either.
However, students with disabilities and others who consistently
score below their peers
on various measures of
vocabulary knowledge have difficulties in secondary - level content area courses.
Students using student - completed graphic organizers outperformed students in researcher - completed and control groups
on combined
vocabulary and reading comprehension
scores using the Gates - MacGinitie Reading test.
On the English and reading side, the root cause of the gap in scores is the relative lack of exposure low - income students have to knowledge and vocabulary, starting from birth — a deficit elementary schools usually reinforce by failing to focus on building students» knowledg
On the English and reading side, the root cause of the gap in
scores is the relative lack of exposure low - income students have to knowledge and
vocabulary, starting from birth — a deficit elementary schools usually reinforce by failing to focus
on building students» knowledg
on building students» knowledge.
Average or higher
scores on measures of listening comprehension, receptive
vocabulary, math calculation and math reasoning can demonstrate the presence of average or higher intellectual potential in the young student.
Low - income students generally
score lower
on rigorous tests, especially in subjects other than math, largely because they lack background knowledge and
vocabulary when compared to their more affluent peers.
Building a rich
vocabulary helps students with reading comprehension and essay writing, which in turn improves
scores on the critical reading and writing components of the ACT and SAT exams.
Twelve months after baseline, blinded evaluations revealed improvements
on ADOS
scores, and there was substantial improvement within the social domain, increased expressive
vocabulary, and improved communication - related behaviors coded during interactions.
This survey constructs a profile of personal aptitudes by combining individual's
scores on six subtests: general ability,
vocabulary, computation, spatial relations, perceptual aptitude, and manual dexterity.
Results showed that a greater reported volunteer — student relationship quality predicted greater gains by EC students
on passage comprehension and Peabody Picture
Vocabulary Test
scores.
Domitrovich, Cortes, and Greenberg (2007) found that the intervention group
scored significantly better than the comparison group
on the Assessment of Children's Emotions Scale — Accuracy, meaning children exposed to PATHS ® had a larger receptive emotion
vocabulary and were more accurate in identifying feelings.
Nancy Marshall, Ed.D. received funding from Associated Early Care and Education to
score, review, analyze, and report
on the Peabody Picture
Vocabulary Test (PVT) and Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening (PALS) data for the children in family child care homes.
Because lower receptive
vocabulary scores were viewed as part of the symptom presentation in children with SB, no attempt was made to match the samples
on this variable.
The following inclusion criteria was used: (a) a confirmed ASD diagnosis from available clinician reports or the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS; Lord et al. 2008), as well as
scores above the cut - off
on the Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ; Rutter et al. 2003) or the Social Responsiveness Scale, Second Edition (SRS - 2; Constantino and Gruber 2012); (b) at least average intellectual functioning (IQ > 79) 1
on the two - subtest scale (FSIQ - 2:
vocabulary and matrix reasoning) of the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence - 2nd Edition (WASI - II; Wechsler 2011); (c) between the ages of 8 and 12 years; and (d) demonstrated willingness to attend research assessments and 10 weekly therapy sessions.