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Chien, Chi-Wen; Brown, Ted; McDonald, Rachael – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
The Assessment of Children's Hand Skills (ACHS) is a new assessment tool that utilizes a naturalistic observational method to capture children's real-life hand skill performance when engaging in various types of activities. The ACHS also intends to be used with both typically developing children and those presenting with disabilities. The purpose…
Descriptors: Test Items, Construct Validity, Test Bias, Disabilities
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Facon, Bruno; Nuchadee, Marie-Laure – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Standardized tests are widely used in intellectual disability research, either as dependent or control variables. Yet, it is not certain that their items give rise to the same performance in various groups under study. In the present work, 48 participants with Down syndrome were matched on their raw score on Raven's Colored Progressive Matrices…
Descriptors: Test Items, Standardized Tests, Down Syndrome, Item Analysis
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Wuang, Yee-Pay; Wang, Li-Chen; Su, Chwen-Yng – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
The aim of this study was to examine the validation of the Hooper Visual Organization Test (HVOT) for use in children by testing for item fit, unidimensionality, item hierarchy, reliability, and screening capacity. A modified scoring system was devised for the HVOT so that children received some credit for being able to describe the function of…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Down Syndrome, Scoring, Item Response Theory