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Boehm Test of Basic Concepts

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Concurrent and Predictive Validity of the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts.

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Beech, Martha C. – 1980

The concurrent validity of the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts (BTBC) was investigated by comparing it to two tests of linguistic abilities (Test of Auditory Comprehension of Language--TACL--and the Carrow Elicited Language Inventory--CELI) and five Piagetian tests of cognitive abilities (space, numeration, seriation, time, and classification) with…

Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten

The Feasibility of Test Translation between Unrelated Languages: English to Navajo

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Rosenbluth, Annabelle R. – TESOL Quarterly, 1976

The Boehm Test of Basic Concepts was translated into Navajo to investigate whether an English test can be translated into Navajo in a form suitable for assessing the language development of K-2 level Navajos. Differences were in: syntactic difficulty, organization of experience into concepts, accidental similarity of words, ranges of meaning. (SCC)

Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Early Childhood Education, English (Second Language), Language Ability