LING 3P90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Object Manipulation, Contrived, Structural Analysis
1 Feb 2016
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A certain level of performance: to describe performance, to set goals, to evaluate progress. Require care to ensure validity and reliability; not the same control. Criterion-referenced comprehension assessment: rules: avoid over interpretation, when you"re testing comprehension, you"re testing that is private and internal. You have to be cautious: control linguistic stimuli, don"t ask the child to do too much at once, you should make sure the child know all the stimuli expect the target stimuli, utterances short and simple o. Compare child"s level of performance in a specific domain to a functional performance standard (ie. a criterion) Purpose of criterion-referenced procedures: to compare child"s performance to past performance or to a standard can child achieve, specify appropriate response, naturalistic, contrived. Best fit/ judgement response (5+years: elicit multiple responses. Comprehension of object and person names: age: 12-18 months, stimuli: common objects, familiar people, response type: behavioural compliance, procedure. Place several objects on the floor in front of the child.
