The Effects of Race and Maternal Education Level on Children's Retells of the Renfrew Bus Story--North American Edition.

Purpose: The Renfrew Bus Story -- North American Edition (RBS-NA; C. Glasgow & J. Cowley, 1994) is widely used in clinical and research settings to determine children's language abilities, although possible influences of race and maternal education on RBS-NA performance are unknown. The current stud...

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Publicado en:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 54; no. 6; pp. 1546 - 1562
Autores principales: Kleeck, Anne van, Lange, Alissa, Schwarza, Amy Louise
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Publicado: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Dec2011
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          Kleeck, Anne van
          Lange, Alissa
          Schwarza, Amy Louise
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          University of Texas at Dallas
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        Analysis of variance
        Black people
        Mothers
        Race
        Storytelling
        White people
        Educational attainment
        Chi-squared test
        Research funding
        Speech evaluation
        Statistics
        T-test (Statistics)
        U-statistics
        Inter-observer reliability
        Descriptive statistics
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          Analysis of variance
          Black people
          Mothers
          Race
          Storytelling
          White people
          Educational attainment
          Massachusetts
          New York (State)
          Chi-squared test
          Research funding
          Speech evaluation
          Statistics
          T-test (Statistics)
          U-statistics
          Inter-observer reliability
          Descriptive statistics
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        African American
        children
        narratives
        socioeconomic status
        African American
        children
        narratives
        socioeconomic status
      ab: Purpose: The Renfrew Bus Story -- North American Edition (RBS-NA; C. Glasgow & J. Cowley, 1994) is widely used in clinical and research settings to determine children's language abilities, although possible influences of race and maternal education on RBS-NA performance are unknown. The current study compared RBS-NA retells of 4 groups of children: African American (AA) children and European American (EA) children whose mothers had an education level of high school or less (< HS) and those whose mothers had an education level higher than high school (> HS). Method: Statistical tests were used to examine 172 kindergartners' story retells using raw scores for all 4 RBS-NA measures: (a) Information, (b) Sentence Length, (c) Complexity, and (d) Independence. Results: A 2x2 analysis of variance (ANOVA) revealed main effects of maternal education and race for the Information score, with ≤ HS and AA children scoring lower. For measures not meeting ANOVA assumptions, 2 x 2 ANOVAs using ranked data indicated significant main effects of maternal education for Sentence Length, Complexity, and Independence scores. There was also an interaction on the Independence measure, with ≤ HS children scoring lower within the AA group. Conclusion: There are systematic effects of maternal education and race on children's RBS-NA performance, which is important for both researchers and clinicians to take into account when using this instrument.
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