Development and Validation of a Standardized Test Instrument (BiSpra-Aufgaben)

The command of academic language is considered to be of great importance for successful participation in and the acquisition of education and school-related competences. In addition, academic language requirements are more difficult than everyday language requirements for pupils with a non-German family language as well as monolingual German-speaking children. Given this background and building on the findings and development work in the BiSpra I and BiSpra II projects, the project pursued the following objectives: (1) The tasks developed in earlier funding phases to record various aspects of the understanding of academic language were further developed into a standardised and normed test instrument suitable for use both in school practice and in research. (2) The results from BiSpra II were extended by longitudinal analyses in order to be able to make statements on the development of educational language abilities and skills and their prognostic validity for school success. The aim of the study was to draw up separate normative values for monolingual German-speaking children, for bilingual children growing up and for children with German as a second language. For this reason, schools with a high proportion of children with an immigrant background were included in the sample disproportionately often. The proportion of non-monolingual German-speaking children is thus higher in the standardisation sample than in the overall population. (IQB)

  • Research Design: Other
  • Sample: Students from grade 2 to 4 (N=3,778); Schools (N=127)
  • DOI: 10.5159/IQB_BiSpra-Aufgaben_v1
  • Restrictions: No

  • Migration Background
    • Country of birth father
    • Country of birth mother
    • Country of birth child
    • Years in Germany
    • Mother tongue father
    • Mother tongue mother
    • Mother tongue (child)
    • Mastery of German and other languages (child)
    • Start of German language acquisition
    • Language of the child at home
    • Language of the child
    • Language(s) learned by the child in the first 3 years of life
    • Languages spoken at home
    • Refugee experience
    • German language skills
    • Language(s) learned by the child in the first three years of life
    • Language(s) spoken at home
    • Support needs in German
    • Country of birth of the child
    • Age on arrival in Germany
    • Languages of origin
    • Frequency with which German is spoken
  • Cultural Capital
    • Number of books in the home
    • Number of books at home
    • Personal ownership of books
  • Individual Characteristics
    • Sex child
    • Month of birth of the child
    • Year of birth of the child
    • Age of the child
    • Special educational needs
    • Support needs in German
  • Family Background
    • ISCO08
    • ISEI
    • HISEI (mother/father)
  • Personal Characteristics
    • Partial competence and developmental disorders (child)
    • Speech therapy (child)
    • Hearing disorder child
    • Hearing aid (child)
  • Occupational Situation
    • Current employment (mother/father)
    • Description of occupation (mother/father)
    • Authority to issue directives (mother/father)
  • Educational Biography
    • Attending a day care centre (child)
    • Language day care center (child)
    • Graduation qualification (mother/father)
    • Vocational qualification (mother/father)
    • ISCED (mother/father)
    • HISCED (mother/father)
    • Years of schooling (mother/father)
    • Child's grade level
  • Private ICT Usage
    • Use of the German language when surfing the Internet
    • Use of German language while surfing the Internet
  • TV Consumption
    • Use of German language in DVD, video, movie, TV consumption
    • Use of German language while watching TV, movies, videos/DVDs
  • Reading and Writing Habits
    • Use of German language in reading
  • Leisure Activities and Peer Group
    • Use of German language while listening to music
    • Use of German language in extracurricular activities
  • School Location
    • Federal state (Bundesland)
    • Population
    • Degree of urbanization
  • Tutoring
    • additional support in German
  • Cognitive Learning Outcomes
    • Performance assessments
  • Other
    • Test booklet rotation
  • Learning and Performance-related Attitudes
    • Performance assessment

  • Domain-Specific Cognitive Competencies
  • Linguistic Competence
  • Test Instrument Language
    • BiSpra-Text
    • BiSpra-Satz
    • BiSpra-Wort
  • German Language
  • Reading
    • Grammar and semantics
  • Listening Comprehension
    • Functional-integrative listening comprehension
  • Vocabulary, passive (Lexicology)
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Data Set Published on
July 23, 2021
Current Version Available Since
July 23, 2021
Survey Period
2017
Sample
Students from grade 2 to 4 (N=3,778); Schools (N=127)
Survey Unit
  • Parents
  • Schools
  • Students
Measured Competencies
Academic Language, Listening Comprehension, Connector Understanding, Vocabulary, Grammar
Region
Baden-Wuerttemberg, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia
Principal Investigators
  • Heppt, Birgit
  • Stanat, Prof. Dr. Petra
  • Weinert, Prof. Dr. Sabine
Data Producers
  • Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
  • Weinert, Prof. Dr. Sabine
Funded by
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Related Studies
Suggested Citation
Weinert, S., Stanat, P., Heppt, B., Volodina, A., & Eglinsky, J. (2021). BiSpra-Aufgaben: Weiterentwicklung zu einem diagnostisch nutzbaren Testinstrument und Prüfung der Sensitivität für Fördereffekte [BiSpra-Transfer: Development and Validation of a Standardized Test Instrument ] (Version 1) [Data set]. Berlin: IQB – Institut zur Qualitätsentwicklung im Bildungswesen. http://doi.org/10.5159/IQB_BiSpra-Aufgaben_v1
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Blank data sets

For a first overview of the data set and its variables, dummy data sets containing the variables used and the value labels relating to them are provided for download here.

BiSpra-Aufgaben

Documentation

Here you can find further documentation:

BiSpra-Aufgaben Scaling Manual BiSpra-Aufgaben Literaturliste BiSpra-Aufgaben Final Report

Further information

  • https://doi.org/10.18452/22352
  • https://doi.org/10.25656/01:20681
  • https://www.uni-bamberg.de/entwicklungspsychologie/forschung/bispra/bispra-aufgaben/

Literature

Selected literature is listed here.

BiSpra-Aufgaben Literature (.bib)