Aim. Our contribution focuses on comparing two methods of administration (traditional paper-based and electronic) regarding children's performance in evaluating their vocabulary using the Cross-Linguistic Lexical Tasks (LITMUS CLT-sk). Methods. To assess the equivalence of both administration methods, the frequency distributions of raw scores in all four subtests were compared in a sample of N = 89 monolingual Slovak-speaking children (age range 44 – 71 months, Mean = 58.46; SD = 7.79). We compared two groups of children, where age and gender were the controlled variables, as usual. However, we are aware that the family's socioeconomic status and the literacy environment significantly impact a child's language development. Therefore, we controlled the other factor, which was the family's cultural capital, defined by the highest education level of the parents and reading behavior in the family. Results. The results of linear regression demonstrated that neither the method of administration nor the gender of the tested children affected their performance in the lexical task. Conversely, the ability to produce and understand nouns and verbs was significantly associated with age and the level of the family's cultural capital, nor the gender of the tested children affected their performance in the lexical task. Conversely, age was the only factor significantly associated with the ability to produce nouns (p < .001) and produce verbs (p = .008) and to a lesser extent, with the ability to understand verbs (p = .08). The noun com- prehension subtest shows a ceiling effect, which likely limits sufficient differentiation of perfor- mance within the observed sample of children.
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