Child Language Disorders Quiz 2

Front 1

Reasons to assess a child

Back 1

-identify children with language disorders

-establish the child's baseline in different areas and how far they have come

-measuring changes in the child's language abilities, initial assessment and retest every 3 years.

Front 2

Best practice for assessment

Back 2

formal and informal testing together.

ex. there could be a child who can say every word on a test, but their speech is intelligible.

Front 3

Ideally, the norming group has the same characteristics as ____________

Back 3

-the child who you are giving the test (gender, racial, ethnic, geographic etc)

Front 4

Types of reliability

Back 4

-test retest reliability

-alternate-form reliability

-split-half reliability

Front 5

Test retest reliability

Back 5

-you administer the same test with a time interval between

Front 6

Alternate-form reliability

Back 6

-administer two forms of the same time (A & B) and the scores should be similar

Front 7

Split-half reliability

Back 7

-splits the test in half and get the scores from both halves, and the scores should be similar

Front 8

Standard Error of Measure

Back 8

-is a way of judging how reliable a test is. On a form 0-1 so you want it closer to 1

Front 9

what is reliability?

Back 9

the repeatability of a test.

Giving the same test to the same child should give the same scores