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Weinstein, Theresa J.; Ceh, Simon Majed; Meinel, Christoph; Benedek, Mathias – Creativity Research Journal, 2022
Evaluating creativity of verbal responses or texts is a challenging task due to psychometric issues associated with subjective ratings and the peculiarities of textual data. We explore an approach to objectively assess the creativity of responses in a sentence generation task to (1) better understand what language-related aspects are valued by…
Descriptors: Creativity, Sentences, Natural Language Processing, Computation
Berdan, Robert – 1972
The results of a study in which eight black kindergarten children responded to a set of structured tasks designed to elicit linguistic constructions which characterize Black English are presented and discussed in this Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) technical note. Some of the children responded with a high rate of nonstandard realizations;…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Dialect Studies, Elementary Education
Pooley, Robert C. – 1974
This book traces the historical development of current attitudes toward language usage and, by examples and quotations, shows the steps in attitude change, including the creation and abandonment of rules. The book is based on the premise that standard English usage is open to different interpretations, and supports this premise with references to…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Evaluation Methods
Ohannessian, Sirirpi, Ed.; And Others – 1975
This volume is a selection of papers prepared for a conference on sociolinguistically oriented language surveys organized by the Center for Applied Linguistics and held in New York in September 1971. The purpose of the conference was to review the role and function of such language surveys in the light of surveys conducted in recent years. The…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Evaluation Methods, Language Patterns, Language Planning
Delaney, Elizabeth M.; Ezell, Sara S.; Solomon, Ned A.; Hancock, Terry B.; Kaiser, Ann P. – 1997
Developed as part of the Milieu Language Teaching Project at the John F. Kennedy Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, this KIDTALK Behavior-Language Coding Protocol and manual measures behavior occurring during adult-child interactions. The manual is divided into 5 distinct sections: (1) the adult behavior codes describe…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales, Child Behavior
O'Donnell, Roy C.; And Others – 1967
This investigation sought to learn about the oral and written language behavior of students from kindergarten age through grade 7, and to determine the validity of different analytic techniques for measuring children's development in control of syntax. Language samples were collected from 180 children (grades K-3, 5, and 7) by having the children…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, English, Evaluation Methods