Child development with the D-score: turning milestones into measurement [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]
The chapter equips the reader with a basic understanding of robust psychometric methods that are needed to turn developmental milestones into measurements, introducing the fundamental issues in defining a unit for child development and demonstrates the relevant quantitative methodology. It reviews q...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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F1000 Research Ltd
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Gates Open Research |
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| Online Access: | https://gatesopenresearch.org/articles/5-81/v2 |
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| Summary: | The chapter equips the reader with a basic understanding of robust psychometric methods that are needed to turn developmental milestones into measurements, introducing the fundamental issues in defining a unit for child development and demonstrates the relevant quantitative methodology. It reviews quantitative approaches to measuring child development; introduces the Rasch model in a non-technical way; shows how to estimate model parameters from real data; puts forth a set of principles for model evaluation and assessment of scale quality; analyses the relation between early D-scores and later intelligence; and compares the D-scores from three studies that all use the same instrument. |
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| ISSN: | 2572-4754 |