TY - JOUR
T1 - Proposed standards for assessing language skills of adolescent students
AU - Lagos-Luciano, Juan
AU - Andruske, Cynthia Lee
AU - Cossio-Bolaños, Marco
AU - Sulla-Torres, Jose
AU - Idme, Leonel Coyla
AU - Luarte-Rocha, Cristian
AU - Gómez-Campos, Rossana
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Published by T& K Academic.
PY - 2019/12
Y1 - 2019/12
N2 - The aim of the study was to validate an instrument and propose standards to measure the language skills of school adolescents. 2270 adolescents (1134 males and 1136 females) in the region of Maule (Chile) was studied. The age range is between 10 to 18 years. The validated instrument has three categories (verbal, paralinguistic and non-verbal) and a total of 26 items. The instrument showed to be valid after the exploratory analysis and Cronbach α (0.86 to 0.88) showed highly reliable values. The LMS method to develop percentiles, let p10, p50 and p90 calculated by age and sex. The instrument measures developed language skills valid and reliable also adopted cutoffs allow diagnose and adolescents by age and sex. These results suggest the use and application of the instrument as an everyday tool in social, cultural and educational contexts.
AB - The aim of the study was to validate an instrument and propose standards to measure the language skills of school adolescents. 2270 adolescents (1134 males and 1136 females) in the region of Maule (Chile) was studied. The age range is between 10 to 18 years. The validated instrument has three categories (verbal, paralinguistic and non-verbal) and a total of 26 items. The instrument showed to be valid after the exploratory analysis and Cronbach α (0.86 to 0.88) showed highly reliable values. The LMS method to develop percentiles, let p10, p50 and p90 calculated by age and sex. The instrument measures developed language skills valid and reliable also adopted cutoffs allow diagnose and adolescents by age and sex. These results suggest the use and application of the instrument as an everyday tool in social, cultural and educational contexts.
KW - Adolescents
KW - Language Skills
KW - Reliability
KW - School
KW - Validity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85078272082&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.26822/iejee.2019257670
DO - 10.26822/iejee.2019257670
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85078272082
SN - 1307-9298
VL - 12
SP - 223
EP - 232
JO - International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education
JF - International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education
IS - 2
ER -