The Malawi Developmental Assessment Tool (MDAT): The creation, validation, and reliability of a tool to assess child development in rural African settings. PLoS Medicine, 7, e1000273. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Gladstone, M., Lancaster, G., Umar, E., Nyirenda, M., ...
Although a great deal of progress has been made in improving the data available to study the child welfare population, further improvements are needed if we are to assess the performance of the child welfare system in promoting safety, permanency, and child and family well-being. 展开 ...
Child developmentValidation of survey measuresDisadvantaged mothersWe analyze the validity of a screening questionnaire (SQ) to assess child development.The present study uses samples of disadvantaged mothers for validation.We find significant correlations between the SQ ratings and those of professional ...
This non-verbal scale was used to estimate the developmental age of children to match TD children and children with ID. This measure allowed to assess cognitive skills of children aged between 2,5 and 7 years (chronological or developmental). Through six subscales, children’s performance (puzzl...
In this study we wanted to: (1) assess the relation between structural priming and the lexical boost across development, (2) explore whether the bias of the target verb influenced structural priming across development, and (3) investigate whether a mismatch between prime verb bias and prime stru...
We assess the effects of attended types and qualities of day-care institutions on various child outcomes as measured by school grades in mathematics, science, English and Danish for the whole Danish population as well as outcomes from the 2006 PISA Denmark survey and a 2007 PISA Copenhagen ...
Furthermore, a competing risks analytical framework was used to simultaneously assess how child, agency, and county factors relate to achievement of different permanency outcomes, which was stratified by age, to identify differences in these relationships among infants, children ages 2 through 12, and...
of intellectual prowess. IQ tests don't measure creativity, social skills, wisdom, acquired abilities or a host of other things we consider to be aspects of intelligence. IQ tests also don't assessrational thinking, such as making the right decisions or dealing with a difficult client at work...
I think it’s sad how we try as women and the majority of the advise I read about adult children being ungrateful or disrespectful to their mom is how the mom needs to bend over backwards and “listen” to their children or assess their issues. How about some children just grow up to...
Teachers need technology-related knowledge to effectively use technology in the classroom. Previous studies have often used self-reports to assess such knowledge. However, it is questionable whether self-reports are valid measures for this purpose. This study investigates how mathematics teachers’ self...