Academic Language Competencies - Affordances, Language Processing, and Diagnostics (BiSpra I)

The project “Bildungssprachliche Kompetenzen (BiSpra)“ ( Academic Language Competencies (BiSpra): Affordances, Language Processing, and Diagnostics) is divided into a linguistic and a psychological/ educational sciences part. In the psychological/ educational sciences sub-project it was experimentally tested which characteristics of “academic language” cause difficulties for children with a migration background and/or children from educationally disadvantaged families. Building on that, (…) test items were developed to examine students’ abilities in “academic language”. These test items aim to test the comprehension of language characteristics that are discussed as characteristics of “academic language” in the literature. To examine the importance of different lexical and grammatical requirements for text comprehension, listening comprehension items were developed and tested that systematically differ in difficulty of vocabulary and complexity of grammar. Furthermore, items capturing the comprehension of connectors were developed and tested. All developed items were applied in the main study with 1,200 second and third graders. Besides, (…) we began exploratory work for measuring general “academic language” vocabulary. (…) According to our expectations, the results of the psychological/ educational sciences sub-project showed that children with a non-German home language showed lower achievements in listening comprehension of German texts than children with German home language. This holds true for texts with demanding vocabulary and grammar but also, to a similar extent, for simpler texts, which are easier to comprehend for all children. Not only children with a non-German home language, but also children from socially disadvantaged families showed limitations in listening comprehension independently from their linguistic background. (IQB) The available data set is a partial data set of the joint project BiSpra, which was created in the Bamberg sub-project. The data was collected in NRW. The data from the Berlin sub-project cannot be made available for re-use for data protection reasons. The data from the linguistic, Hamburg sub-project are located at the Hamburg Centre for Language Corpora <a href="https://corpora.uni-hamburg.de/drupal/" target="_blank">(HZSK)</a> at the University of Hamburg.

  • Research Design: Quasi-Experimental Design
  • Sample: Students in grade 2 and 3 N=1,194) (Berlin n=635, Köln n=559); Classes (N=35); Schools (N=11)
  • DOI: 10.5159/IQB_BiSpra_1_v1
  • Restrictions: No

  • Migration Background
    • Country of birth father
    • Country of birth mother
    • Country of birth child
    • Stay in Germany
    • Country of birth grandparents
    • First language: father
    • First language: mother
    • First language: child
    • Language use
    • German language skills
    • Language other than German
    • Languages
  • Cultural Capital
    • Possession of books
    • Wealth assets
  • Individual Characteristics
    • Sex
    • Year of birth
    • Month of birth
    • Age
  • Family Background
    • Occupation of parents
    • Parents' employment status
    • Occupational position of parents
    • Vocational training of parents
    • Graduation qualifications of parents
    • Schooling of parents
  • Personal Characteristics
    • Receptive language competence: German
    • Productive language competence: German
    • Receptive language competence: other first languages
    • Productive language competence: other first languages
    • Speech therapy treatment child
    • Hearing disorder child
    • Hearing aid child
    • Diagnosed disorders (child)
  • Educational Biography
    • Preschool care
    • Speech therapy treatment child
    • School grades
  • Reading and Writing Habits
    • Reading habits
    • Reading habits of parents
  • Home Learning Environment
    • Activities with child
    • Language activity
  • Home Learning Support
    • Support measures
  • Parental Educational Aspirations
    • Educational aspirations of parents
  • Learning and Performance-related Attitudes
    • Language support needs of the child
  • Cognitive Learning Outcomes
    • School grades
    • German language skills

  • Domain-Specific Cognitive Competencies
  • Linguistic Competence
  • Test Instrument Language
  • TROG-D - Test zur Überprüfung des Grammatikverständnisses
  • WWT 6-10 - Wortschatz- und Wortfindungstest für 6- bis 10-Jährige
    • WWTrezeptiv
  • in-house development
    • BiSpra-Text
    • BiSpra-Satz
    • BiSpra-Wort
  • German Language
    • Grammar comprehension
  • Reading
    • Reading comprehension
    • Grammar and semantics
  • Listening Comprehension
    • Listening comprehension text version
    • Functional-integrative listening comprehension
  • Vocabulary, passive (Lexicology)
    • Connector Understanding
    • Vocabulary and word-finding test
  • Cross-Domain Cognitive Skills
    • Phonological working memory
    • Nonverbal basic cognitive skills
    • nonverbal intelligence
  • Test Instrument Intelligence
  • CFT 20-R - Grundintelligenztest
    • CFT 1
  • KABC-II - Kaufman-Assessment Battery for Children
    • Repeating numbers
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Data Set Published on
June 17, 2016
Current Version Available Since
June 17, 2016
Survey Period
2011, 2012
Sample
Students in grade 2 and 3 N=1,194) (Berlin n=635, Köln n=559); Classes (N=35); Schools (N=11)
Survey Unit
  • Parents
  • Teachers
  • Students
Measured Competencies
Listening Comprehension, Connector Understanding, Vocabulary, Grammar, Phonological Working Memory
Region
Berlin, North Rhine-Westphalia
Principal Investigators
  • 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
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Suggested Citation

Data set:

Weinert, S., Stanat, P., Heppt, B., Berendes, K., & Dragon, N. (2016). Bildungssprachliche Kompetenzen (BiSpra I) - Anforderungen, Sprachverarbeitung und Diagnostik [Academic Language Competencies - Affordances, Language Processing, and Diagnostics (BiSpra I)] (Version 1) [Data set]. Berlin: IQB – Institut zur Qualitätsentwicklung im Bildungswesen. http://doi.org/10.5159/IQB_BiSpra_1_v1

Final Report:

Weinert, S., Stanat, P., Redder, A., Dragon, N., Heppt, B., & Uesseler. S. (2014). Verbundvorhaben: Bildungssprachliche Kompetenzen (BiSpra): Anforderungen, Sprachverarbeitung und Diagnostik [Academic Language Competencies (BiSpra): Affordances, Language Processing, and Diagnostics]. Schlussbericht [Final Report] 2013. Bamberg u. a.: Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg u. a. [Bamberg et al.: University of Bamberg et al.]

Codebook:

Heppt, B., Berendes, K., Weinert, S., & Stanat, P. (2016). Bildungssprachliche Kompetenzen (BiSpra I): Anforderungen, Sprachverarbeitung und Diagnostik. Skalenhandbuch zur Dokumentation der Erhebungsinstrumente [Academic Language Competencies (BiSpra I): Affordances, Language Processing, and Diagnostics. Codebook]. Bamberg u. a.: Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg u. a. [Bamberg et al.: University of Bamberg et al.]

Restriction Notice

The available data set is a partial data set of the joint project BiSpra, which was created in the Bamberg sub-project. The data was collected in NRW. The data from the Berlin sub-project cannot be made available for re-use for data protection reasons. The data from the linguistic, Hamburg sub-project are located at the Hamburg Centre for Language Corpora (HZSK) at the University of Hamburg.

Users of the data set should always cite the scale manual and the final report. In addition, there is a requirement that the data user must note the following in a footnote: "The data were collected as part of the BiSpra I project (Head: S. Weinert, P. Stanat; funded by BMBF)."

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 I

Documentation

Here you can find further documentation:

BiSpra I Scaling Manual BiSpra I Literaturliste
BiSpra I Final Report

Further information

  • https://www.uni-bamberg.de/entwicklungspsychologie/forschung/bispra/bispra-i/
  • https://corpora.uni-hamburg.de/drupal

Literature

Selected literature is listed here.

BiSpra I Literature (.bib)