Validity and Psychometric Properties of the Early Development Instrument in Canada, Australia, United States, and Jamaica

Autor/inn/en	Janus, Magdalena; Brinkman, Sally A.; Duku, Eric K.
Titel	Validity and Psychometric Properties of the Early Development Instrument in Canada, Australia, United States, and Jamaica
Quelle	In: Social Indicators Research, 103 (2011) 2, S.283-297 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0303-8300
DOI	10.1007/s11205-011-9846-1
Schlagwörter	Performance Based Assessment; Physical Health; Social Indicators; Foreign Countries; International Organizations; Psychometrics; Communication Skills; Interpersonal Competence; Cognitive Development; Child Development; Teacher Attitudes; Evaluation Methods; Child Health; Well Being; Emotional Development; Language Acquisition; Factor Structure; Measures (Individuals); Australia; Canada; Jamaica; United States; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Leistungsermittlung; Gesundheitszustand; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator; Ausland; International organisation; International organisations; International organization; Internationale Organisation; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Kommunikationsstil; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Kognitive Entwicklung; Kindesentwicklung; Lehrerverhalten; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Gefühlsbildung; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Faktorenstruktur; Messdaten; Australien; Kanada; USA
Abstract	There is an increasing support from international organizations and the research community for stepping beyond infant or child mortality as the most common child level social indicator and progressing towards an international measure of child development. The Early Development Instrument (EDI) is a teacher-completed measure of children's developmental health at school entry, which to date has been used in more than a dozen countries. The EDI includes five developmental domains (Physical Health and Well-being, Social Competence, Emotional Maturity, Language and Cognitive Development and Communication Skills and General Knowledge) and 16 subdomains. This paper examines the EDI's psychometric properties in four English-speaking countries (Canada, Australia, United States and Jamaica) by evaluating both the internal consistency and factor structures, as well as exploring the association between the EDI's Language and Cognitive Development Domain and a direct assessment of children's receptive vocabulary (Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, PPVT). Overall, the factor loadings and internal consistencies of domains and subdomains were similar across the countries. The comparisons of the Language and Cognitive Development Domain with the PPVT showed high specificity and low sensitivity. The results of this paper indicate that the EDI, a measure of children's developmental status at school entry, demonstrates similar psychometric properties in a number of countries, thus building the evidence for the instrument to be added to the limited array of internationally comparable child social indicators. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10