New Zealand Children and the Preschool Language Assessment Instrument
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19502415 |
|---|---|
| Authors | STEPHEN ROBINSON (0000-0003-1497-9371), Stephen R Robinson (0000-0002-0987-0075), Linda Hand (0000-0002-9577-7773) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 165-170 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asia Pacific Journal of Speech Language and Hearing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1361-3286 • E-ISSN: 2058-0967 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/jslh.2011.14.3.165 |
| OpenAlex | W1970560078 |
| Language | EN |
Blank's examination of children's abilities in abstract language was implemented in the Preschool Language Assessment Instrument (2nd edition). The PLAI-2 has four distinct levels of increasing difficulty: matching, selective analysis, reordering, and reasoning. This study showed that the reordering and reasoning levels (III and IV) overlapped in terms of difficulty for 5-year-old New Zealand children. This may require a re-examination of Blank's construct. Overlap was also seen for matching and selective analysis, but this can be explained in terms of the children performing at ceiling
Blank · Ceiling effect · Developmental psychology · Geography · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Programming language · Statistics · Computer Science · Educational and Psychological Assessments · Engineering · Language Development and Disorders · Mathematics · Medicine · Psychology · Writing and Handwriting Education
| Highly cited | No |
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