Open AccessSentence Completion to Assess Children's Views About Aging
Author(s) -
Michael J. Lichtenstein,
Linda A. Pruski,
Carolyn E. Marshall,
Cheryl L. Blalock,
Shuko Lee,
Rosemarie Plaetke
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
the gerontologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1758-5341
pISSN - 0016-9013
DOI - 10.1093/geront/43.6.839
Subject(s) - sentence , psychology , developmental psychology , medicine , linguistics , philosophy
Sentence completion exercises require students to give open-ended responses to prompts. The first purpose of this article is to describe the method of sentence completion to assess middle-school children's attitudes and beliefs about aging. The second purpose is to describe the patterns of characteristics that children associate with aging.
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