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ERIC Number: ED131168
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1976-Sep
Pages: 31
Abstractor: N/A
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The Listener's Ability to Report Oral Responses of Black and White Children.
Gerken, Kathryn Clark; Deichmann, John W.
This study investigated the relationship of dialect and race of five and six-year old boys to a listener's ability to report the oral response of boys to ten vocabulary items from the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC). A group of 20 black and 20 white college students viewed videotapes of eight first grade boys who represented four dialect groups: black standard, black nonstandard, white standard, and white nonstandard. Analysis of three 2 x 2 x 2 ANOVAS revealed significant interactions between race and dialect of child relative to (1) a listener's ability to report in writing a child's verbatim responses without producing a change in the WISC scoring of the responses, and (2) a listener's ability to restate in writing a child's responses without producing a change in the scoring of the responses. Further, both dialect and race of child were found to be significantly related to another factor (3) , the total number of errors the listener makes in writing the child's responses. The race of the listener as a main effect was not found to be significantly related to (1), (2), or (3). However, significant interaction did occur between race of listener and race of child; and race of listener, race of child, and dialect of child relative to (3). (Author/JM)
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children
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