Item-Level Psychometrics and Predictors of Performance for Spanish/English Bilingual Speakers on An Object and Action Naming Battery.
Purpose: There is a pressing need for psychometrically sound naming materials for Spanish/English bilingual adults. To address this need, in this study the authors examined the psychometric properties of An Object and Action Naming Battery (An O&A Battery; Druks & Masterson, 2000) in bilingual speak...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 55; no. 2; pp. 359 - 382 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=74184865&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 74184865 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10924388 1SM jtl: Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research issn: 10924388 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Apr2012 vid: 55 iid: 2 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 74184865 10.1044/1092-4388(2011/10-0307) ppf: 359 ppct: 23 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 1.2MB tig: atl: Item-Level Psychometrics and Predictors of Performance for Spanish/English Bilingual Speakers on An Object and Action Naming Battery. aug: au: Edmonds, Lisa A. Donovan, Neila J. affil: The University of Florida, Gainesville Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge su: Florida Multilingualism Psychometrics Factor analysis Fisher exact test Research methodology Speech evaluation Statistics T-test (Statistics) Data analysis Multiple regression analysis Multitrait multimethod techniques Research methodology evaluation Data analysis software Descriptive statistics sug: subj: Multilingualism Psychometrics Florida Factor analysis Fisher exact test Research methodology Speech evaluation Statistics T-test (Statistics) Data analysis Multiple regression analysis Multitrait multimethod techniques Research methodology evaluation Data analysis software Descriptive statistics keyword: bilingual naming Rasch validity verbs bilingual naming Rasch validity verbs ab: Purpose: There is a pressing need for psychometrically sound naming materials for Spanish/English bilingual adults. To address this need, in this study the authors examined the psychometric properties of An Object and Action Naming Battery (An O&A Battery; Druks & Masterson, 2000) in bilingual speakers. Method: Ninety-one Spanish /English bilinguals named O&A Battery items in English and Spanish. Responses underwent a Rasch analysis. Using correlation and regression analyses, the authors evaluated the effect of psycholinguistic (e.g., imageability) and participant (e.g., proficiency ratings) variables on accuracy. Results: Rasch analysis determined unidimensionality across English and Spanish nouns and verbs and robust item-level psychometric properties, evidence for content validity. Few items did not fit the model, there were no ceiling or floor effects after uninformative and misfit items were removed, and items reflected a range of difficulty. Reliability coefficients were high, and the number of statistically different ability levels provided indices of sensitivity. Regression analyses revealed significant correlations between psycholinguistic variables and accuracy, providing preliminary construct validity. The participant variables that contributed most to accuracy were proficiency ratings and time of language use. Condusions: Results suggest adequate content and construct validity of O&A items retained in the analysis for Spanish/English bilingual adults and support future efforts to evaluate naming in older bilinguals and persons with bilingual aphasia. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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