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Providing a word association test and determine its validity and reliability in Persian (farsi) language children
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Z Soleymani1   , S Khoramian * 2, MR Shahbodaghi1 , S Faghih Zadeh3 |
1- دانشکده توانبخشی دانشگاه علوم پزشکی تهران
2- دانشکده توانبخشی دانشگاه علوم پزشکی تهران , sdkhoramian@yahoo.com
3- گروه آمار زیستی دانشکده علوم پزشکی دانشگاه تربیت مدرس |
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Abstract: (11256 Views) |
Background and aim:The current research provides a word association test and
determine its validity and reliability in Persian (farsi) language.
Materials and methods: A word association test was administered to a group of
twenty girls and twenty one boys that were similar in age and education.
Based on Goldfarb's word association test , word stimuli were balanced according to
frequency of occurrence (frequent, infrequent), word length (short, long),
abstraction level (low , medium, high) ,and grammatical class (noun ,verb, adjective
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Based on "Recognition basic word's Iranian student in primary school"(nemat
zade,1384),180 words were selected. This words scored by experts. Seventy two
words were selected . The test administered in oral on the first grade students .Then
responses were coded as paradigmatic or sytagmatic . Results were analyzed by
Maknamar and Capa test.
Results: Findings show high correlation between first and second test in three
grammatical Class (noun, verb, adjective, p=0/001).High correlation exists between
two stages of test.
Conclusion: These findings show word association test is valid and reliable .This is
usable in assessment of semantic development and language development. |
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| Keywords: word association test, Persian (farsi) language, validity, reliability |
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Type of Study: Research |
Subject:
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Received: 2008/08/10 | Accepted: 2008/09/10 | Published: 2013/08/6
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