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Politzer, Robert L.; Brown, Dwight – Florida FL Reporter, 1973
As part of the development of a battery of tests to determine proficiency in black standard and nonstandard speech, a test, consisting of 20 items involving verbal and pictorial cues, was developed and administered to 27 third graders and 32 sixth graders. Results were analyzed to determine test reliability and correlation with other test scores.…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Elementary Education, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
Download full textPolitzer, Robert L.; And Others – 1973
As part of the development of a test battery to determine proficiency in black standard and nonstandard speech, a test was devised consisting of a repetition task. Fifteen sentences in black standard and 15 in black nonstandard English were to be repeated. A black experimenter administered the test individually to 35 black kindergartners. The…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Correlation, Kindergarten Children, Language Proficiency
