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1、ATechniqueforMeasuringtheVocabularyBurdenofTextbooksAuthor(s):W.W.PattyandW.I.PainterReviewedwork(s):Source:TheJournalofEducationalResearch,Vol.24,No.2(Sep.,1931),pp.127-134Publishedby:Taylor&Francis,Ltd.StableURL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/27525420.Accessed:11/01/201211:50YouruseoftheJSTOR
2、archiveindicatesyouracceptanceoftheTerms&ConditionsofUse,availableat.http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jspJSTORisanot-for-profitservicethathelpsscholars,researchers,andstudentsdiscover,use,andbuilduponawiderangeofcontentinatrusteddigitalarchive.Weuseinformationtechnologyand
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4、ENOFTEXTBOOKSW.W.PattyandW.I.PainterIndianaUniversityAmongtheimportantfactorsthatshouldbeconsideredwhenselectingatextbookforhigh-schooluseisthatofvocabularyburden.Itseemsevidentthateaseofreadingandunderstandingthewordsofatextbookisanimportantindextoitslearningdifficulty.Afewstudieshavebeenma
5、depreviouslyinthisfield.LIMITATIONSOFSOMEVOCABULARYSTUDIESLivelyandPressey1selectedonethousandwordunitsfromeachofsixteendifferenttypesofreadingmaterial.ThesewordswerethenassignedthevaluesgiveninThorndike'sTeachers'WordBook,2andcomparisonwasmadeonthebasisoftotalvaluesforeachtype.Theirmethodse
6、emstobeveryeffectiveforthecomparisonofthevocabularydifficultyoftextsorofthevocabularyburdenofunitsequalinlength.Itfails,however,toconsidertheextraburdenimposedonthereaderbyadditionallength.Dolch3makesaverygoodpointinworkingoutaratiobetweenthenumberofdifferentwordstothenumberoftotalwordsinabo
7、oksoas1Lively,BerthaA.,andPressey,S.L."AMethodforMeasuringtheVocabu"laryBurdenofTextbooks,EducationalAdministrationandSupervision,IX(October,1923),389-98.3Thorndike'sTheTeachers'WordBoohisanalphabeticallistoftenthousandwordswhichwerefoundtooccurmos
