TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessing cognitive development through maternal report
T2 - validity evidence from the dimensional inventory for child development assessment
AU - de Mendonça Filho, Euclides José
AU - da Silva, Mônia Aparecida
AU - Koziol, Natalie
AU - Hawley, Leslie
AU - Bandeira, Denise Ruschel
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln through its UNL/Brazil Collaboration Pilot Impact Grant; Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Rio Grande do Sul (FAPERGS); and Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES). Opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not reflect the position of the funders.
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Substantial evidence endorses the early assessment of cognitive development to promote children’s developmental health and well-being. Especially in the Brazilian context, there is a paucity of standardized screening and assessment tools with normative data to evaluate young children. This study provided initial reliability and validity evidence to support the use of the Cognitive Scale of the Dimensional Inventory for Child Development Assessment (IDADI) in a Brazilian sample of 1,174 4 to 72-months-olds. The inventory includes 106 maternal report items that assess increasingly sophisticated cognitive skills attained by children. Rasch analysis indicated excellent internal consistency of scores and optimal participant discrimination. Person separation was 10.67 and reliability was 0.99. Items sufficiently spanned cognitive abilities with an item separation of 35.81 and reliability of 1.00 (mean infit=0.95 [SD=0.28], mean outfit=1.63 [SD=1.97]). Items’ hierarchy was consistent with expectations regarding the developmental difficulty of various cognitive skills. Cluster analysis indicated different patterns of association between cognitive development and age, and a cluster predominantly of children with developmental disorders. IDADI scores correlated with relevant criteria variables, such as age, developmental diagnosis, maternal education, and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, supporting the use of IDADI as a psychometrically sound measure of cognitive development.
AB - Substantial evidence endorses the early assessment of cognitive development to promote children’s developmental health and well-being. Especially in the Brazilian context, there is a paucity of standardized screening and assessment tools with normative data to evaluate young children. This study provided initial reliability and validity evidence to support the use of the Cognitive Scale of the Dimensional Inventory for Child Development Assessment (IDADI) in a Brazilian sample of 1,174 4 to 72-months-olds. The inventory includes 106 maternal report items that assess increasingly sophisticated cognitive skills attained by children. Rasch analysis indicated excellent internal consistency of scores and optimal participant discrimination. Person separation was 10.67 and reliability was 0.99. Items sufficiently spanned cognitive abilities with an item separation of 35.81 and reliability of 1.00 (mean infit=0.95 [SD=0.28], mean outfit=1.63 [SD=1.97]). Items’ hierarchy was consistent with expectations regarding the developmental difficulty of various cognitive skills. Cluster analysis indicated different patterns of association between cognitive development and age, and a cluster predominantly of children with developmental disorders. IDADI scores correlated with relevant criteria variables, such as age, developmental diagnosis, maternal education, and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, supporting the use of IDADI as a psychometrically sound measure of cognitive development.
KW - Cognitive development
KW - Rasch analysis
KW - assessment
KW - validation
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U2 - 10.1080/17405629.2021.1936490
DO - 10.1080/17405629.2021.1936490
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85109852517
VL - 19
SP - 585
EP - 600
JO - European Journal of Developmental Psychology
JF - European Journal of Developmental Psychology
SN - 1740-5629
IS - 4
ER -