Child development with the D-score: turning milestones into measurement [version 1; peer review: 1 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 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... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2021 |
Schlagwörter: | child development / Rasch model / growth chart / D-score / item difficulty / developmental milestones / Dutch Development Instrument (Van Wiechenschema) measurement / D-score standard deviation score (DAZ) / early intervention / children 0-2 years / preterm |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28630497 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/413610 |