A Preliminary Methodological Verbal Computer Content Analysis Study of Preschool Black Children

Abstract

The contentive verbal language of groups of three-, four-, and five-year-old black children was contrasted by utilizing the computerized General Inquirer System and the associated Harvard III Psychosociological Dictionary. Significant differences were found between groups in some contentive categories. Computerized verbal content analysis appears to be a fruitful method of testing and studying theoretical issues and in conducting empirical educational research.