research on test questions

[Keith Nelson]

Have a look at some older research and discussion 
on this by William Hall, in the book series 
Children's Language.   Best of luck,   Keith 
Nelson


At 9:40 AM -0800 1/30/09, Katie Alcock wrote:
>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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