The Dutch Auditory & Image Vocabulary Test (DAIVT): A New Dutch Receptive Vocabulary Test for Students

Abstract

We introduce a new Dutch receptive vocabulary test, the Dutch auditory & image vocabulary test (DAIVT). The test is multiple choice and assesses vocabulary knowledge for spoken words. The measure has an online (available at https://tpsurvey.ugent.be/limesurvey315/index.php/923234?lang=nl ) format, has free access, and allows easy data collection. The test was developed with the intent to enable testing for research purposes with university students. This paper describes the test construction. We cover three phases: 1) collecting stimulus materials and developing the test’s first version, 2) an exploratory item-analysis on the first draft (n = 93), and 3) validating the test (both the second and the final version) by comparing it to two existing tests (n = 270, n = 157). The results indicate that the test is reliable and correlates well with existing Dutch receptive vocabulary tests (convergent validity). The final version of the DAIVT comprises 90 test items and 1 practice item. It can be used freely for research purposes.

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“…It is advised to run this test following the test ‘Gender cue identification’. Both are counted as one test Reaction time (Huettig & Janse, 2016 ) Self-paced reading 5 min Participants read sentences of varying syntactic complexity in a self-paced fashion Reaction time (Uddén et al, 2022 ) Extra tests Dutch auditory & image vocabulary test 12 min Participants hear a spoken word and select the picture associated with its meaning among four alternatives Accuracy (Bousard & Brysbaert, 2021 ) Matrix reasoning test 8 min Participants indicate which of four possible shapes completes a matrix of geometric patterns Accuracy (Chierchia et al, 2019 ) BIG 5 personality traits 5 min Participants rate personality statements Qualitative (Denissen et al, 2020 ) Receptive vocabulary test (multiple choice) 7 min Participants read target words (varying in difficulty) and select the correct meaning among four written alternatives Accuracy (Vander Beken & Brysbaert, 2018 ) Extra tests production One-minute reading test 3 min Participants read as many words (increasing in difficulty) as possible within 1 min Reaction time (Callens et al, 2012 ) Story reading test 5 min Participants read as much as possible of a story within 3 min Reaction time (Rouweler et al, 2020 ) …”

“…The materials for these tests are free for use in scientific research, and we used them for our own implementations of the test. The tests are listed under ‘Extra tests’ and ‘Extra tests production’, respectively, in the graphical user interface and measure the following psychological constructs: Linguistic experience (piloted in Flemish speakers; i.e., receptive vocabulary size , ‘Dutch Auditory & Image Vocabulary Test’, Bousard & Brysbaert, 2021 ; ‘Receptive vocabulary test (multiple choice)’, Vander Beken and Brysbaert, 2018 ), non-verbal reasoning (‘Matrix reasoning test’, Chierchia et al, 2019 ), personality traits (‘BIG 5 personality traits’, Denissen et al, 2020 ), word-reading (piloted in Flemish speakers; ‘One Minute Reading Test’, Callens et al, 2012 ), and story-reading (piloted in Flemish speakers; ‘Story Reading Test’, Rouweler et al, 2020 ). We included these tests as alternatives for copyright-protected tests we previously used to assess receptive vocabulary size and non-verbal reasoning.…”