On the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT), for All Racial and Ethnic

question 24

Multiple Choice

On the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) , for all racial and ethnic categories of people, a higher rate of poverty is linked to

• A)lower performance on the test.
• B)no change on test scores.
• C)a slight increase in test scores.
• D)a large increase in test scores.

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Definitions:

Pragmatics

The branch of linguistics concerned with the use of language in social contexts and the ways in which people produce and comprehend meanings through language.

Vocabulary Spurt

Vocabulary spurt is a rapid increase in the acquisition of new words that typically occurs in early childhood, significantly expanding a child's language abilities.

Rapid Increase

A swift and significant growth or escalation in quantity or intensity in a short period of time.

Underextending

The cognitive error where a child applies a word too narrowly, limiting its use to a single object instead of to all objects that belong to a particular category.