After completing the picture naming task, subjects were asked to fill in the questionnaire (adapted from [ 46]) in German, providing information on language background, acquisition history, language use and self-ratings of language proficiency.
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Ratings of academic performance (mathematics and language skills) were made by teachers on a 5-point rating scale: 1 (much below average), 2 (below average), 3 (average), 4 (above average), and 5 (much above average).
In June, the most recent month for which figures are available, Sotelo tied for sixth among morning radio hosts in the Los Angeles-Orange County media market regardless of language, according to the Arbitron ratings service.
The other 13 studies, including 2 that explicitly aimed to study the potentially modulating role of proficiency, relied on varying versions of self-ratings and language background questionnaires, the validity of which has only rarely been tested (for an exception, see Marian, Blumenfeld, & Kaushanskaya, 2007).
As well, in decisions involving grammar in a second-language test, ratings of experienced pleasure indicated the decision, right or wrong, the subjects would eventually make [ 6].
The study looked at effectiveness ratings for English language arts and math teachers in 26 districts over the course of five years.
Most bilingual studies within experimental psychology rely on participants' self-ratings of proficiency and language background questionnaires as the only source of proficiency information.
Sharing outside of language.
An overall analysis was performed to evaluate the effect of language (medicalese vs. lay) and the impact of the type of disorder rated (newly medicalized vs. established medical conditions) on ratings of seriousness, disease representativeness and prevalence.
Most of the observed differences between ratings provided for the SLI and TD groups were not significant when nonverbal IQ was treated as a covariate or when syndrome scales were adjusted for the presence of language and academic items.
