Birth Order, Family Configuration and Verbal Achievement. [Report No.: ETS-RB-72-47

Autor/in	Breland, Hunter M.
Institution	Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ.
Titel	Birth Order, Family Configuration and Verbal Achievement. [Report No.: ETS-RB-72-47
Quelle	(1972), (58 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Achievement; Achievement Tests; Age; Birth Order; Bulletins; Family Characteristics; Family Environment; Family Influence; Family (Sociological Unit); High School Students; Research Projects; Sex Differences; Siblings; Socioeconomic Influences; Verbal Ability + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Performance; Leistung; Achievement test; Achievement; Testing; Test; Tests; Leistungsbeurteilung; Leistungsüberprüfung; Testdurchführung; Testen; Alter; Lebensalter; Geburtenfolge; Familienmilieu; Familie; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Forschungsvorhaben; Sex difference; Geschlechtsunterschied; Sibling; Geschwister; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Mündliche Leistung
Abstract	Two samples of National Merit Scholarship participants tested in 1962 and the entire population of almost 800,000 participants tested in 1965 were examined. Consistent effects in all three groups were observed with respect to both birth order and family size (firstborn and those of smaller families scoring higher). Control of both socioeconomic variables and mother's age (by analysis of variance as well as by analysis of covariance) failed to alter the relationships. Step-down analyses suggested that the effects were due to a verbal component and that no differences were attributable to non-verbal factors. Detailed sibship configurations based on birth order, family size, sibling spacing, and sibling sex were developed for both sexes. The resulting 82 different sibship configurations were ranked by test score means. A rank-order correlation between sexes yielded a very high value of .96, and a high correlation was shown to persist within family sizes. References and tables are included. (Author)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01