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- Title
Assessing the Reliability and Use of the Expository Scoring Scheme as a Measure of Developmental Change in Monolingual English and Bilingual French/English Children.
- Authors
Kay-Raining Bird, Elizabeth; Joshi, Nila; Cleave, Patricia L.
- Abstract
Purpose: The Expository Scoring Scheme (ESS) is designed to analyze the macrostructure of descriptions of a favorite game or sport. This pilot study examined inter- and intrarater reliability of the ESS and use of the scale to capture developmental change in elementary school children. Method: Twenty-four children in 2 language groups (monolingual English and bilingual French/English) and 2 age groups (7-8 years, 11-12 years) participated (6 in each subgroup). Participants orally explained how to play their favorite game or sport in English. Expository discourse samples were rated for 10 macrostructure components using the ESS. Ratings were summed for a total score. Results: Inter- and intrarater reliability was high for the total ESS score and for some but not all ESS components. In addition, the total score and ratings for many ESS components increased with age. Few differences were found in use of macrostructure components across language groups. Conclusions: The ESS captures developmental change in the use of expository macrostructure in spoken discourse samples. It may be beneficial to take into account the lower reliability found for ratings of some ESS components in clinical practice. Due to the small sample size, these results should be considered preliminary and interpreted with caution.
- Subjects
CANADA; ANALYSIS of variance; ELEMENTARY schools; LANGUAGE acquisition; MEDICAL cooperation; MULTILINGUALISM; MULTIVARIATE analysis; PROBABILITY theory; RESEARCH; RESEARCH evaluation; SPEECH evaluation; PILOT projects; INTER-observer reliability; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; MANN Whitney U Test; INTRACLASS correlation
- Publication
Language, Speech & Hearing Services in Schools, 2016, Vol 47, Issue 4, p297
- ISSN
0161-1461
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1044/2016_LSHSS-15-0029