title: A study of the concurrent validity of the Screening Test of Adolescent Language with recent immigrants.
abstract: The concurrent validity of the Screening Test of Adolescent Language was investigated by correlating the total scores for 152 first-year medical students with their performances on the Woodcock Language Proficiency Battery. The sample included many recent immigrants from southeastern Asia who were not yet highly proficient in English. The Pearson correlation of .78 between the two measures was high and statistically significantly different from zero.
authors.affiliation: University of Sydney, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Hayes
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Farnill
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D000293:Adolescent; D001315:Australia; D004501:Education, Medical; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D006801:Humans; D007807:Language Tests; D012570:School Admission Criteria