gilbert_meta_79

64,560 responses from 1,189 respondents to 30 items.

One of 6 tables from the same source; this one measures Test of Narrative Language. The others are listed under Related tables.

About this table

DescriptionTest of Narrative Language
ReferenceCabell, S. Q., Kim, J. S., White, T. G., Gale, C. J., Edwards, A. A., Hwang, H., ... & Raines, R. M. (2024). Impact of a content-rich literacy curriculum on kindergarteners’ vocabulary, listening comprehension, and content knowledge. Journal of Educational Psychology.
DOI10.1037/edu0000916
LicenceODC-By
Source datahttps://ldbase.org/datasets/de4bf144-39ed-430c-862d-201009d3d33e

Size and shape

Responses64,560
Respondents1,189
Items30
Response categories2
Responses per respondent54.298
Responses per item2,152
Density1.810
LongitudinalTRUE

Classification

age rangeChild (<18y)
child age (for child-focused studies)Child (6-12y)
sampleEducational
construct typeCognitive/educational
measurement toolTest
item formatLikert Scale/selected response
primary language(s)eng
construct nameTest of Narrative Language

Item text

This table has item text in the IRW: the wording administered to respondents, not just the response codes.

InstrumentTest of Narrative Language
Mean words per item7.433
Mean characters per item37.933
Flesch-Kincaid grade level2.019

Codebook

This codebook is reconstructed by the IRW from the IRW data standard and the script that built it, gilbert_77through82.R. It is our best reading, not the source’s own codebook, and it may contain mistakes. Where the two disagree, the source data are the authority. If you find an error, please tell us.

ColumnWhat it isSource column
IRW standard columns
cluster_idIRW standard The group a focal unit is nested in — classroom, teacher, school.school_id
idIRW standard Identifier for the focal unit being measured — typically a person, but sometimes another entity (e.g., a word in a lexical task).student_id
itemIRW standard Item identifier.made in the build script
respIRW standard Response value.made in the build script
treatIRW standard Treatment group assignment in experimental studies.treatment
waveIRW standard Longitudinal wave indicator.made in the build script
Respondent covariates
cov_gradeCovariate grade
cov_maleCovariate s_male
cov_teacherCovariate teacher_id

What item codes and covariate values stand for is in the source’s codebook, CKLA student item level codebook.

Get the data

Download CSVno account neededBrowse on Redivisexplore and queryCroissant metadataHugging Face, Kaggle, OpenML

Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):

# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("gilbert_meta_79")
# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("gilbert_meta_79")

How to cite

@article{Cabell_2025, title={Impact of a content-rich literacy curriculum on kindergarteners’ vocabulary, listening comprehension, and content knowledge.}, volume={117}, ISSN={0022-0663}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/edu0000916}, DOI={10.1037/edu0000916}, number={2}, journal={Journal of Educational Psychology}, publisher={American Psychological Association (APA)}, author={Cabell, Sonia Q. and Kim, James S. and White, Thomas G. and Gale, Charles J. and Edwards, Ashley A. and Hwang, HyeJin and Petscher, Yaacov and Raines, Rhonda M.}, year={2025}, month=feb, pages={153–175} }

Version and provenance

IRW versionv569
Redivis datasetitem_response_warehouse v71.0
Redivis dataset DOI10.57761/f5n4-k797
Manifest pin for this IRW versionv70.0
Metadata sourceirw_meta v43.0