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Parental estimates of children's receptive vocabulary
Author(s) -
Sattler Jerome M.,
Feldman Jeannine,
Bohanan Ann L.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6807(198507)22:3<303::aid-pits2310220312>3.0.co;2-j
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , vocabulary , peabody picture vocabulary test , receptive language , rating scale , reading (process) , estimation , cognition , linguistics , philosophy , management , neuroscience , political science , law , economics
Samples of 13 mothers and fathers of normal preschool children and 11 mothers of high‐risk preschool children estimated their children's vocabulary ability by predicting their child's responses to individual PPVT‐R items and by making a global rating of their child's vocabulary ability. Prior to the parental estimations, the children had been administered the PPVT‐R. Accuracy of parental estimates, as measured by d ', was low, although the mothers' average estimates were significantly higher than zero and higher than fathers' estimates. Accuracy of estimation was similar for mothers of normal preschoolers and for mothers of high‐risk preschoolers. Time spent reading to the child, mothers' employment, and children's ability level were not related to parental accuracy. Although correlations between the children's scores and parental estimates all were significant, parents tended to overestimate their children's abilities by approximately 9 to 10 points on the average. Overall, parental estimates of their children's vocabulary ability, using a global rating scale, provide a somewhat useful measure for placing their children in a broad classification range.