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Taylor, John L.; Novaco, Raymond W. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
Personality disorder is prevalent among offenders with intellectual disabilities (ID), and it is associated with their risk for violence and recurrent offending behaviour. A new staff-rated instrument, the Personality Disorder Characteristics Checklist (PDCC), designed to screen for ICD-10 dissocial and emotionally unstable personality…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Personality Assessment, Mental Retardation, Construct Validity
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Lin, Yueh-Hsien; Su, Chwen-Yng; Guo, Wei-Yuan; Wuang, Yee-Pay – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
The Hooper Visual Organization Test (HVOT) is a measure of visuosynthetic ability. Previously, the psychometric properties of the HVOT have been evaluated for Chinese-speaking children aged 5-11 years. This study reports development and further evidence of reliability and validity for a second version involving an extended age range of healthy…
Descriptors: Visual Measures, Norms, Psychometrics, Test Validity
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Deng, Ci-ping; Liu, Ming; Wei, Wei; Chan, Raymond C. K.; Das, J. P. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
This study aims to measure the psychometric properties of the Das-Naglieri Cognitive Assessment System (D-N CAS) and to determine its clinical utility in a Chinese context. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted to examine the construct validity of the Chinese version of the D-N CAS among a group of 567, normally developed children.…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Cognitive Tests, Factor Analysis, Construct Validity
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Maiano, Christophe; Begarie, Jerome; Morin, Alexandre J. S.; Garbarino, Jean-Marie; Ninot, Gregory – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
The purpose of this study was to test the reliability (i.e. internal consistency and test-retest reliability) and construct validity (i.e. content validity, factor validity, measurement invariance, and latent mean invariance) of the Nutrition and Activity Knowledge Scale (NAKS) in a sample of French adolescents with mild to moderate Intellectual…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Nutrition, Content Validity, Construct Validity
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M. Lotan; R. Moe-Nilssen; A. E. Ljunggren; L. I. Strand – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
Evaluating pain in adults with intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) is a challenge. The Non-Communicating Adults Pain Checklist (NCAPC) was recently developed from the Non-Communicating Children's Pain Checklist (NCCPC) and examined in a group of adults with IDD (N = 228) and found to hold satisfactory construct validity, internal…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Allied Health Personnel, Immunization Programs, Caregivers
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Ketelaars, Mieke P.; Cuperus, Juliane M.; van Daal, John; Jansonius, Kino; Verhoeven, Ludo – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
The present study examines the validity of the Dutch Children's Communication Checklist (CCC) for children in kindergarten in a community sample, in order to assess the feasibility of using it as a screening instrument in the general population. Teachers completed the CCC for a representative sample of 1396 children at kindergarten level, taken…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Emotional Problems, Language Impairments, Construct Validity