A Rasch-based validation of the Vocabulary Size Test

By D. Beglar. 2010

352 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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In Artificial Intelligence

1. Stuart Webb
2. B. Laufer
3. N. Schmitt
4. Paul Nation
5. Stuart Mclean
6. Thi My Hang Nguyen
7. D. Beglar
8. Geke C. Ravenhorst-Kalovski

In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Stuart Webb
2. N. Schmitt
3. B. Laufer
4. Paul Nation
5. Thi My Hang Nguyen
6. E. Peters
7. Stuart Mclean
8. D. Beglar

Citations in the corpus

• Examining second language receptive knowledge of collocation and factors that affect learning (2017, methodology): “There are several commonly used testing instruments that measure knowledge of single-word items such as the Eurocentres Vocabulary Size Test (Meara & Jones, 1990), the Vocabulary Size Test (Nation & Beglar, 2007), the Vocabulary Levels Test (Nation, 1983; Schmitt, Schmitt, & Clapham, 2001) and two v”
• Lexical threshold revisited: Lexical text coverage, learners’ vocabulary size and reading comprehension (2010, methodology): “Since in the Levels Test the K5 section is followed by K10, which makes it difficult to fill in the K6–K9 gaps, we preferred to test them on the 6K, 7K, and 8K sections of a new Vocabulary Size Test (Nation & Beglar, 2007) which was validated by Beglar (2009).”
• The creation and validation of a listening vocabulary levels test (2015, methodology): “The LVLT uses the same multiple-choice format as the Vocabulary Size Test (VST).”
• A Bilingual Vocabulary Size Test of English for Vietnamese Learners (2011, methodology): “Beglar (2010), when looking at the monolingual Vocabulary Size Test, found that a 70 item version would perform as well as a 140 item version.”
• The Word Part Levels Test (2017, neutral): “Well-researched tests include the Vocabulary Levels Test (Nation, 1983; Schmitt, Schmitt, & Clapham, 2001), Vocabulary Size Test (Beglar, 2010; Nation & Beglar, 2007), Eurocentres Vocabulary Size Test (Meara & Buxton, 1987), and Word Associates Test (Read, 1993, 1998).”