The Development of a Lexical Knowledge Test: Assessing Lexical Knowledge of Indonesian High School Students using the Cattel-Horn-Carroll (CHC) Theory of Intelligence

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10.2991/iciap-17.2018.6How to use a DOI?

Keywords

CHC; lexical knowledge; senior high school students; major; test construction

Abstract

As the most comprehensive contemporary theory, the Cattell-Horn-Carroll Theory of Intelligence (CHC) is a suitable framework for a new standard reference for senior high-school majors in Indonesia. This study attempted to construct a lexical knowledge measurement, called Tes Pengetahuan Leksikal (TPL), as one of the Narrow Abilities in the CHC theory, so that it could be administered in a group and serve as a reference for senior high school students in selecting a major. This lexical knowledge measurement was administered to 104 students (Mage=16.01; SDage= 4.67). Initially, this measurement contained a set of 40 items, divided into synonym and antonym sections. Eventually, it was reduced to 20 items through a psychometric item analysis. The reliability testing resulted in the score of α = .65. Items in this measurement varied in difficulty and were able to discriminate individual levels of lexical knowledge. Distractors within each item were well-performed and distributed evenly among false choices. This measurement correlated positively and significantly with TIKI-M’s subtest 3 with r = .286, which indicated that the TPL was a valid test for measuring lexical knowledge. Scores from this measurement could be interpreted using a scaled score (M = 10, SD = 3) method.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Ariestianto Waskita
AU  - Nurul Arbiyah
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TI  - The Development of a Lexical Knowledge Test: Assessing Lexical Knowledge of Indonesian High School Students using the Cattel-Horn-Carroll (CHC) Theory of Intelligence
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