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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 3.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Biling Educ Biling. 2010;13(3):325–344. doi: 10.1080/13670050903342019

Table 2.

N, Mean, standard deviation and percentage zeros for BESA scores

Total Correct Scores (different item sets used for 4 and 5-yo) N Mean Correct SD Number of Items Percent Zero
English morphosyntax 757 5.17 4.73 17 27%
English semantics 757 4.86 2.97 10, 111 18%
Spanish morphosyntax 755 6.73 5.51 16 22%
Spanish semantics 748 5.62 3.70 12 11%

Note:

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= BESOS 4 year olds are administered a total of 10 items, 5 year olds respond to 11 items, there are 6 items in common.