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Biks and Gutches is an easy-to-administer-and-score task. It looks too simple to be very useful but with it we can easily predict which younger children need extra help with learning English. Giving this assessment to individual children will help the teacher to become a better judge of how a child's oral language is changing.
. The items can be used to evaluate whether a new teaching programme is having any effect. Change can be captured over two points of time.
. If the school had introduced some new or special instruction, Biks and Gutches can be used to evaluate its effectiveness. Results could point to the rate of kind of change that has occurred as a result of special attention.
. For children who speak a dialect of English the test can answer questions like this. Has the children's control over the rules for inflections of the standard dialect increased?
Children usually learn and use both school and 'home' versions of English and they know when to use either version. Sometimes the non- standard usage dominates, and this can have consequences for school assessment in standard English. Compare the test and retest scores to see the rates of change and nay persistent problems.
The times in Biks and Gutches were designed for the 5 to 7 year old age group but have been used successfully in research with children up to 10 year old. (Back of Book)
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