The predictive value of the Columbia and the Michigan vocabulary tests for academic achievement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11257639 |
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| Authors | Euri Belle Bolton (Georgia State College for Women, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1954 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 9-21 |
| Publication date | 1954-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Peabody Journal of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0161-956X • E-ISSN: 1532-7930 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01619565409536539 |
| OpenAlex | W1995941559 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
problem with which this study is concerned is more inclusive than the title implies. study of the tests of vocabulary referred to is a part of the larger problem of the development of conceptual knowledge through a program of general education. In order to clarify the relation of this study to the larger problem, it is necessary to define those aspects of it which will be considered in this report. acquisition of concepts is one of the essential characteristics of the individual's learning, of his adjustment and of his mental development from birth throughout his adult life. William James in 1890 gave a good explanation of the relation of concepts to thinking in his analysis of the weaknesses of the explanation given by the nominalists that . . . ideas in order to know, must be cast in the exact likeness of the things they resemble (8, p. 471). In opposition to their view, he said, We must decide in favor of the conceptualists and affirm that the power to think things, qualities, relations or whatever elements there may be isolated and abstracted from the total experience in which they appear, is the most indisputable function of our (8, pp. 472-473). In his explanation of conception, he pointed out that thinking is a process of making judgments. said, The result of the thought's operating on the data given to sense is to transform the order in which experience comes into an entirely different order, that of the conceived world (8, pp. 481-482). considered language to be the most essential ability which has enabled man to develop a conceptual knowledge of his experience. defined language as a . . . system of signs, different from the things signified, but able to suggest them, (8, p. 356) and thought that man has acquired the ability to use language because . .. He has a deliberate intention to apply a sign to
Academic achievement · Achievement test · Developmental psychology · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Predictive validity · Predictive value · Standardized test · Statistics · Value (mathematics · Vocabulary · Educational Assessment and Pedagogy · Mathematics · Medicine · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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