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Measuring Variability in Early Child Language: Don't Shoot the Messenger.
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Fenson, Larry; Bates, Elizabeth; Dale, Philip; Goodman, Judith; Reznick J., Steven; Thal, Donna – Child Development, 2000
Presents data showing that the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory's (CDI) large variability, lack of stability, and insufficient ability to predict early language delay are authentic reflections of individual differences in early language development rather than measurement deficiencies. Responds to critiques regarding sociodemographic…
Descriptors: Child Language, Individual Differences, Infants, Language Acquisition
Assessing Young Children's Views of Their Academic, Social, and Emotional Lives: An Evaluation of the Self-Perception Scales of the Berkeley Puppet Interview.
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Measelle, Jeffrey R.; Ablow, Jennifer C.; Cowan, Philip A.; Cowan, Carolyn P. – Child Development, 1998
Examined psychometric properties of self-perception scales of the Berkeley Puppet Interview (BPI) with children at preschool, kindergarten, and first grade. Found that young children have a multidimensional self-concept that can be reliably measured. The BPI was sensitive to normative change and individual differences. Support for validity was…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Individual Differences, Interviews, Longitudinal Studies
Investigations of Temperament at Three to Seven Years: The Children's Behavior Questionnaire.
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Rothbart, Mary K.; Ahadi, Stephan A.; Hershey, Karen L.; Fisher, Phillip – Child Development, 2001
Reviews evidence on reliability and validity of the Children's Behavior Questionnaire (CBQ); presents CBQ data on structure of temperament in childhood. Factor analyses indicate three broad dimensions of temperament: extroversion/surgency, negative affectivity, and effortful control. This factor structure also appears in ratings of children in…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Cross Cultural Studies, Individual Differences, Measures (Individuals)
Continuity in Mental Development from Infancy.
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Sigman, Marian D. – Child Development, 1986
Reviews bases for contemporary discontinuity theories of mental development, presents findings that support alternative proposition of continuity and scrutinizes assessment methods from which these continuity results derive. Also offers several models that help explain the continuity findings, and argues that individual differences in mental…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Continuity
Educational Risk and Resilience in African-American Youth: Context, Self, Action, and Outcomes in School.
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Connell, James Patrick; And Others – Child Development, 1994
Examined the empirical validity of a model of human motivation as it applies to school success and failure, assessing how indicators of context, self, and action related to measures of risk and resiliency. Subjects were 10- to 16-year-old African American youth in 3 independent samples. Found that parental engagement predicted school performance…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Black Youth