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  • Developmental Psychology
  • Early Childhood Education

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  • Toddlers may grasp numerical relevance before precise counting skills.
  • Traditional Give-N tasks assess cardinal knowledge but miss preliminary number word understanding and are difficult for remote administration.
  • Emerging research explores early numerical cognition and its assessment methods.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether toddlers can map number words to quantities using a Point-to-X task.
  • To compare the effectiveness of in-person versus remote administration of the Point-to-X task.
  • To explore the relationship between performance on the Point-to-X task and the Give-N task.

Main Methods:

  • One hundred two- to three-year-old toddlers completed both Give-N and Point-to-X tasks.
  • Assessments were administered either in-person or remotely via videoconferencing.
  • Point-to-X task involved identifying the correct quantity from two options based on a number word.

Main Results:

  • Toddlers correctly mapped number words to quantities in the Point-to-X task above chance levels.
  • No significant performance differences were observed between in-person and remote testing conditions.
  • Performance on Point-to-X correlated with Give-N task results, with 2-knowers showing preliminary understanding beyond their knower level.

Conclusions:

  • The Point-to-X task effectively measures toddlers' emerging number-word knowledge, capturing nuances missed by Give-N.
  • This task is a viable, easy-to-administer alternative for remote assessment of early numerical cognition.
  • Findings suggest toddlers develop partial number-word understanding before achieving full cardinal knowledge.