The relationship of four variants of the Vocabulary Size Test to a criterion measure of meaning recall vocabulary knowledge

The Vocabulary Size Test (VST) was designed to measure the vocabulary needed for reading. Recent research, however, has questioned the “meaning-recognition” construct measured by the VST, arguing that “meaning-recall” is a more accurate estimate of reading vocabulary. The present study compared four variants of the VST to determine which, if any, could be used as an expedient proxy for estimating meaning-recall knowledge. Two hundred Japanese...