Concept |
Acceptable wording |
Wording/action that modifies the skill resulting in a reduction of scores |
| Area |
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- Biiiggggest with gesture showing size
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| Length |
- Long, longer, longest
- Short, shorter, shortest
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- Big, bigger, biggest
- Small, smaller, smallest
- Looonngggest with gesture showing length
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| Volume/Capacity |
- Holds the most or holds the largest amount
- Holds the least or holds the smallest amount
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- Biggest
- Smallest
- Presenting item as 2- instead of 3-dimensional (not opening paper bag on items related to volume) which changes skill from discrimination based on volume to discrimination based on size.
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| Weight |
- Heavy, weighs the most
- Light, weighs the least
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| Distance |
- Longest, farthest
- Shortest, closest
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- If item used numerals to express distance, asking for biggest/smallest instead
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| Time/ Speed |
- Longest, slowest, most time, biggest amount of time
- Shortest, quickest, fastest, least time, smallest amount of time
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- If item used numerals to express time/speed, asking for biggest/smallest number instead
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| Quantity or Frequency distribution (Bar chart) |
- Most, biggest number, largest number
- Least, smallest number
- A few/a lot
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- Highest, tallest, longest, biggest
- Lowest, shortest, smallest
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| Probability |
- Most likely, best chance
- Least likely
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- Most, biggest number
- Least, smallest number
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