Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Fifth Edition.

PPVT-5

What it measures

Receptive (hearing) vocabulary in Standard American English; used as an index of crystallized verbal ability (Gc) and as a language screening measure.

Length and format

~240 items per form in age-based sets (Forms A and B), administered with basal and ceiling rules. multiple-choice ability (point to one of four pictures) (performance/ability test)

Language versions

Adapted rather than directly translated in most markets: Spanish parallel Test de Vocabulario en Imagenes Peabody (TVIP), British adaptation BPVS-3 (GL Assessment), French adaptation EVIP. A translation count is not meaningful for a picture-plate test.

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

copyrighted - commercial

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Reference

Dunn, D. M. (2019). Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Fifth Edition (PPVT-5). Bloomington, MN: NCS Pearson. Publisher page: https://www.pearsonassessments.com/

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