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Westera, J. J.; Houtzager, B. A.; Overdiek, B.; van Wassenaer, A. G. – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2008
The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether the application of Dutch versus US test procedures and norms of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development-2nd edition (BSID-II) leads to different developmental outcomes. The BSID-II was administered to 376 preterm infants (191 males, 185 females; mean gestational age 30wks [SD 2.7], mean…
Descriptors: Premature Infants, Raw Scores, Measures (Individuals), Testing
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Hazenberg, Suzanne; Hulstijn, Jan H. – Applied Linguistics, 1996
Investigates how many words of the Dutch language, and which words, an adult nonnative speaker must know receptively in order to understand first-year university reading materials. Assessment of the representativeness of a list of 23,550 words and administration of a 140-item multiple-choice vocabulary test indicated that a minimum of 10,000 base…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Dictionaries, Dutch, Foreign Countries
van Groenestijn, Mieke – 2001
Criteria for placement tests on math skills of adult basic education (ABE) students are needed to develop tests that are not too "school-like" because the ABE students are often blocked by math anxiety due to past negative school experiences, students may encounter language problems that affect their math skills, simple math problems do…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Culture Fair Tests, Curriculum Development