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Strengthening Developmental Science with Psychometric Evaluations: An Examination of the Spatial Arrangement Method as a Measure of Semantic Structure in Children
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Catarina Vales; Zach Branson; Anna V. Fisher – Infant and Child Development, 2025
Cognitive tasks are seldom evaluated on their ability to provide valid and reliable measurements of the construct they intend to measure. This scarcity of psychometric evaluations makes it challenging to evaluate replications of experimental effects and to relate performance in cognitive tasks to other constructs of interest. In developmental…
Descriptors: Child Development, Psychometrics, Semantics, Preschool Children
The Children's Worlds Psychological Well-Being Scale in Children Aged 10 and 12 from 30 Countries: Analysis from Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory
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Rodrigo Moreta-Herrera; Xavier Oriol-Granado; Mònica González; Jose A. Rodas – Infant and Child Development, 2025
This study evaluates the Children's Worlds Psychological Well-Being Scale (CW-PSWBS) within a diverse international cohort of children aged 10 and 12, utilising Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT) methodologies. Through a detailed psychometric analysis, this research assesses the CW-PSWBS's structural integrity, focusing on…
Descriptors: Well Being, Rating Scales, Children, Item Response Theory