Performance of a receptive language test among young children in madagascar

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Weber, Ann M ^a   Fernald, Lia C H ^b   Galasso, Emanuela ^c   Ratsifandrihamanana, Lisy ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

^d Centre Médico Educatif les Orchidées Blanches   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL ITEM FUNCTION; EDUCATION; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD WEALTH; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERNAL VALIDITY; ITEM RESPONSE THEORY METHODOLOGY; ITEM VALIDITY; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TEST; MADAGASCAR; MALAGASY LANGUAGE; MALE; MATERNAL EDUCATION; MEASUREMENT ERROR; METHODOLOGY; PEABODY PICTURE VOCABULARY TEST THIRD EDITION FORM B; PSYCHOMETRY; RECEPTIVE LANGUAGE TEST; RELIABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUBGROUP BIAS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDITY; LINGUISTICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REPRODUCIBILITY;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MADAGASCAR; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84927534543     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121767     Document Type: Article

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