The Relation of Grammatical Errors in Protocols of the Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank: High School Form and Grades in Language Arts of Junior High School Students
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The Relation of Grammatical Errors in Protocols of the Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank: High School Form and Grades in Language Arts of Junior High School Students
186 seventh and eighth grade students were administered the Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank: High School Form with instructions amended so that the students would be aware of the importance of supplying grammatically correct responses. Rotter protocols were scored for errors in grammar and were submitted to a school psychologist, who through clinical inspection only estimated semester language arts grades for the students. Most types of grammatical errors correlated significantly with semester grades earned in language arts class, but clinical inspection of the Rotter protocols yielded the highest correlation (.54) with the criterion. Girls earned significantly higher language arts grades than boys.
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