research on test questions

[Katie Alcock]

There's quite a lot of work on question form in cognitive development work -
it has been investigated more closely I suspect than in language development
work.

See for example 

Pratt, C. (1990). On asking children--and adults--bizarre questions. First
Language, 10(29, Pt 2), 167-175.
Pratt, C. (1988). The child's conception of the conservation task. British
Journal of Developmental Psychology, 6(2), 157-167.

As well as this memorably titled article in The Psychologist (which is no
doubt why it sprang to my mind!)

http://www.thepsychologist.org.uk/archive/archive_home.cfm?volumeID=14&editi
onID=72&ArticleID=298


On 30/01/2009 03:05, "Hauser, Gerlind" <hauser at eva.mpg.de> wrote:

> 
> Hi everybody!
> 
> I am interested in research, especially experiments, on so-called
> "test questions" and test requests. By "test question" I mean
> questions (mostly from an adult to a child), where it is clear from
> context that the adult has the information he is asking for and thus
> asks in order to test the child's knowledge/memory or to simply
> interact with the child. Analogous there are also test requests, where
> the adult could perfectly take the object he is requesting also
> without the child's help.
> 
> I would be grateful for any suggestions,
> 
> Gerlind
> 
> --
> Gerlind Grosse PhD student at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
> Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6 04103 Leipzig
> Work: 0049 341 3550 407
> 
> > 


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