New Norms for and an Item Analysis of the Wepman Test at the First Grade, Six-Year-Level
Abstract
An item analysis and normative study of the Wepman test was conducted with 204 6-yr.-old first graders selected to be representative of the population at large. Serious discrepancies with the published norms were found not only with the criterion for identifying a child having problems of auditory discrimination but with the utility of the validity checks of excessive error counts (X errors) and the missing of same-sound phonemes (Y errors). For these 204 children the mean error was 7.0 ( SD = 3.5) which would identify 67% of these Ss as having auditory discrimination problems. Further, only one child would have been eliminated by the use of Y errors, and none of the six children who made excessive X errors missed two or more Y validity items. Those items which are “hard” for the first grader (sheaf-sheath, 76% miss) and which are “easy” (gum-dumb, ½% miss) are identified. Pearsonian correlations with other learning modalities, socio-economic level, and a measure of reading readiness are offered.
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There is some evidence that 5- and 6-year-old children have some trouble discriminating /v/ and /θ/ segments.
“(There is some evidence, however, that 5-and 6-year-old children have some trouble discriminating Ivl and 101 segments [Massaro, 1987;Snyder & Pope, 1970]).”
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Snyder R. T., Pope P. Auditory and visual inadequacies in maturation at the first grade level. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1970, in press.
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“An auditory discrimination test (Wepman, 1958) was administered to a sample of children, resulting in new norm data for the six-year-old (Snyder and Pope, 1970), and an item analysis of which phonic sounds are difficult to discriminate and which not.”
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- Authors
- Snyder, R. T., & Pope, P.
- Affiliations
- Prince George's County Public Schools (US)
- Venue
- Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1970-12
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 1007-1010
- ISSN
- 0031-5125 (ISSN-L)
- 1558-688X
- OpenAlex
- W2022277423
- Cited by
- 6
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 0.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Perceptual and Motor Skills (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Developmental and Educational Neuropsychology
- Social Sciences › Education › Early Childhood Education and Development
- Keywords
- auditory discrimination, speech perception, reference values, first grade students, item analysis, phoneme identification, reading readiness, socioeconomic status, learning modalities
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