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Optimality versus Complications: Assessing Predictive Values of Perinatal Scales.
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Molfese, Victoria J.; Thomson, Brian – Child Development, 1985
Scores generated by two optimality and three complication scales used to assess perinatal risk for 103 infants were compared for accuracy in predicting a variety of neonatal and infant outcome measures. Results suggested an advantage in favor of the three complication scales. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, High Risk Persons, Infants, Measurement Techniques
Children's Ability to Make Probability Estimates: Skills Revealed through Application of Anderson's Functional Measurement Methodology.
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Acredolo, Curt; And Others – Child Development, 1989
Two studies assessed 90 elementary school students' attention to the total number of alternative and target outcomes when making probability estimates. All age groups attended to variations in the denominator and numerator and the interaction between these variables. (RJC)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Estimation (Mathematics), Evaluation Methods
The History of Longitudinal Research: Implications for the Future
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Sontag, Lester – Child Development, 1971
Paper presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, Miami, Florida, September, 1970. (RY)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Evaluation Methods