Development of a Parent Report Measure for Profiling the Conversational Skills of Preschool Children

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 25-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luigi Girolametto
Keyword(s):  
Rating Scale ◽  
Parent Report ◽  
Parental Perceptions ◽  
Communicative Ability ◽  
Conversational Skills ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Test Retest Reliability ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Report Measure

A rating scale was developed for parents to use in profiling the conversational skills of their toddlers and young preschoolers with expressive skills between 12–36 months. The scale items were tested on 60 children with language delays and measured parental perceptions of two types of conversational interactions specifically designed to respond to the partner (i.e., answer questions, continue the topic of conversation) and to assert (i.e., request, initiate topics). Evaluation of the psychometric properties of the rating scale indicates that the individual items within each set are correlated with the total scale scores for responsiveness and assertiveness, respectively. Alpha coefficients were stable when calculated for two different samples. Moreover, administering the scale twice to a subset of 20 parents yielded a high degree of short-term test-retest reliability. The profiles of 6 children are presented to illustrate the clinical usefulness of the rating scale as a means of identifying areas of deficit and selecting potential treatment goals. The rating scale provides a clinically useful tool for including parental perceptions in the overall assessment of the young child's communicative ability.

scholarly journals The Early Social Cognition Inventory (ESCI): An examination of its psychometric properties from birth to 47 months

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Hoicka ◽  
Burcu Soy-Telli ◽  
Eloise Prouten ◽  
George Leckie ◽  
William J. Browne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Parent Education ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Parent Report ◽  
Structure Study ◽  
Internal Reliability ◽  
Current Test ◽  
Test Retest Reliability ◽  
Report Measure

AbstractSocial cognition refers to a broad range of cognitive processes and skills that allow individuals to interact with and understand others, including a variety of skills from infancy through preschool and beyond, e.g., joint attention, imitation, and belief understanding. However, no measures examine socio-cognitive development from birth through preschool. Current test batteries and parent-report measures focus either on infancy, or toddlerhood through preschool (and beyond). We report six studies in which we developed and tested a new 21-item parent-report measure of social cognition targeting 0–47 months: the Early Social Cognition Inventory (ESCI). Study 1 (N = 295) revealed the ESCI has excellent internal reliability, and a two-factor structure capturing social cognition and age. Study 2 (N = 605) also showed excellent internal reliability and confirmed the two-factor structure. Study 3 (N = 84) found a medium correlation between the ESCI and a researcher-administered social cognition task battery. Study 4 (N = 46) found strong 1-month test–retest reliability. Study 5 found longitudinal stability (6 months: N = 140; 12 months: N = 39), and inter-observer reliability between parents (N = 36) was good, and children’s scores increased significantly over 6 and 12 months. Study 6 showed the ESCI was internally reliable within countries (Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States, Trinidad and Tobago); parent ethnicity; parent education; and age groups from 4–39 months. ESCI scores positively correlated with household income (UK); children with siblings had higher scores; and Australian parents reported lower scores than American, British, and Canadian parents.

scholarly journals Development and evaluation of a hospital management practice rating scale

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Yidan Zhu ◽  
Ruya Guo ◽  
Lixia Dou ◽  
Yifei Zhao ◽  
Shenshen Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rating Scale ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Clinical Pathways ◽  
Hospital Management ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Coronary Syndromes ◽  
Hospital Stays ◽  
Test Retest Reliability ◽  
High Degree

Background: Lacking methods to quantify the inter-hospital variance in hospital management practice (HMP) is a bottle neck for research on HMP and quality of care. This study aims to quantify the inter-hospital variance in HMP by developing a novel rating scale of HMP and evaluating its feasibility, reliability and validity.Methods: Based on the theory of hospital management, we developed a HMP rating scale with 4 dimensions: Target, operations, performance and talent management. We used questionnaires to collect relevant information from the hospital director, the medical affairs director, the head of the department of cardiology, and a cardiologist. And we also requested a list of administration documents. For validation of the scale, we applied it to 101 hospitals that had participated in the Third Phase of the Clinical Pathways in Acute Coronary Syndromes Study (CPACS-3) in 2013 and repeated it in 2014.Results: The HMP rating scale includes 17 indicators and 47 sub-indicators in the four dimensions; 85% and 97% of hospitals responded to the first and second survey respectively. A high degree of the test-retest reliability for the overall score (ICC = 0.8) was found between the two time points. Both split-half and Cronbach’α coefficient of the overall score exceeded 0.85. Cumulative percentage of variance in all dimensions was above 60%, and factors extracted in each dimension were highly consistent with the designed indicators and sub-indicators. The overall HMP score was different between hospital groups with different revenues, patients’ hospital stays, and number of clinical pathways (All p values < .01).Conclusions: The HMP rating scale was demonstrated reliable, valid, and responsive, but future studies with larger sample size in different settings are needed to confirm the study findings.

Development and Psychometric Properties of the Student Worry Questionnaire–30

2001 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 277-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Augustine Osman ◽  
Peter M. Gutierrez ◽  
William R. Downs ◽  
Beverly A. Kopper ◽  
Francisco X. Barrios ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Report ◽  
General Anxiety ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Oblimin Rotation ◽  
Test Retest Reliability ◽  
Report Measure

Described are the development and initial psychometric properties (Ns = 50 and 188) of a self-report measure, the Student Worry Questionnaire–30, for use with college undergraduates Exploratory principal components analyses (Ns = 388, 350, and 396) with oblimin rotation indicated six domains of worrisome thinking, financial-related concerns, significant others' well-being, social adequacy concerns, academic concerns, and general anxiety symptoms. The total score and scale scores showed internal consistency of .80 to .94. Also, test-retest reliability analyses (.75 to .80) support consistency of responses over 4 wk. Strong evidence for convergent validity was indicated. Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the fit of the 6-factor oblique model. Limitations of the present studies, and directions for research are discussed.

Reliability and Validity of a Tardive Dyskinesia Videotape Rating Technique

1982 ◽  
Vol 140 (5) ◽  
pp. 508-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas R. E. Barnes ◽  
Thomas Trauer
Keyword(s):  
Tardive Dyskinesia ◽  
Prevalence Rate ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Standard Procedure ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Severity Rating ◽  
Abnormal Movements ◽  
Criterion Level ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Test Retest Reliability

SummaryNinety-four psychiatric in-patients, receiving regular antipsychotic medication, were videotaped using a standard procedure. The tapes were rated by blind observers using a simple scoring system for the duration of abnormal movements. Using this combined videotape and rating scale assessment technique the re-rating reliability, inter-rater reliability and test-retest reliability were high. In order to demonstrate the validity of the technique the rating scale scores in a sub-sample of 30 patients, were compared with the assessment of three experienced clinicians on the same patients, and AIMS scores. Central (lip, tongue, jaw and neck movements) scores showed close agreement with the clinicians' assessment, suggesting that clinical diagnosis is based principally on the presence and severity of oro-facial dyskinesia. Total rating scale scores were in close accord with total AIMS scores. When the two scales were carried out on the same patients on the same occasion a diagnostic criterion level of 2 or more on the central score produced a tardive dyskinesia prevalence rate identical to that produced by an AIMS criterion level of 2 or more on the global severity rating. The tardive dyskinesia prevalence rate based on the central score criterion level showed an increase with age.

Living with a Craniofacial Condition: Development of the Craniofacial Experiences Questionnaire (CFEQ) for Adolescents and Their Parents

2011 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 727-735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel M. Roberts ◽  
Rosalyn Shute
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Child Behavior Checklist ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Parent Report ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Internal Reliability ◽  
New Instrument ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Positive Experiences

Objective To develop a new instrument (the Craniofacial Experiences Questionnaire, CFEQ) to measure both stressors and positive aspects of living with a craniofacial condition from adolescent and parent perspectives, and to examine its validity and reliability. A secondary aim was to explore experiences reported according to age, gender, and diagnosis. Design Self-report and parent report questionnaires (CFEQ, Youth Self Report [YSR], Child Behavior Checklist [CBCL], Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale [BERS]) were completed by adolescents with congenital craniofacial conditions and their parents. Participants Fifty adolescents with craniofacial conditions and 55 of their parents. Results Internal reliability of the stressor and positive aspects scales was acceptable (.81 to .92) but was lower for some stressor subscales (.50–.86). Higher stressor scale scores were related to poorer adjustment (CBCL r = .55, YSR r = .37). There were no consistent differences in the stressful or positive experiences of young people with craniofacial conditions according to gender or age. There were no differences in stressors reported according to diagnosis. Conclusions The CFEQ shows promise as a clinical and research tool for investigating the stressors and positive experiences of young people with craniofacial conditions. Consistent with the literature on chronic pediatric conditions, there were few differences in experiences of young people according to diagnosis. Furthermore, the lack of gender or age differences supports the need for clinicians to comprehensively assess the experiences of young people regardless of demographic variables.

PlayerLoad™: Reliability, Convergent Validity, and Influence of Unit Position during Treadmill Running

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 945-952 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Barrett ◽  
Adrian Midgley ◽  
Ric Lovell
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Center Of Mass ◽  
Treadmill Running ◽  
Accelerometer Data ◽  
Retest Reliability ◽  
Lower Limb Movement ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Test Retest Reliability ◽  
High Degree

Purpose:The study aimed to establish the test–retest reliability and convergent validity of PlayerLoad™ (triaxial-accelerometer data) during a standardized bout of treadmill running.Methods:Forty-four team-sport players performed 2 standardized incremental treadmill running tests (7–16 km/h) 7 d apart. Players’ oxygen uptake (VO2; n = 20), heart rate (n = 44), and triaxialaccelerometer data (PlayerLoad; n = 44) measured at both the scapulae and at the center of mass (COM), were recorded. Accelerometer data from the individual component planes of PlayerLoad (anteroposterior [PLAP], mediolateral [PLML], and vertical [PLV]) were also examined.Results:Moderate to high test–retest reliability was observed for PlayerLoad and its individual planes (ICC .80–.97, CV 4.2–14.8%) at both unit locations. PlayerLoad was significantly higher at COM vs scapulae (223.4 ± 42.6 vs 185.5 ± 26.3 arbitrary units; P = .001). The percentage contributions of individual planes to PlayerLoad were higher for PLML at the COM (scapulae 20.4% ± 3.8%, COM 26.5% ± 4.9%; P = .001) but lower for PLV (scapulae 55.7% ± 5.3%, COM 49.5% ± 6.9%; P = .001). Between-subjects correlations between PlayerLoad and VO2, and between PlayerLoad and heart rate were trivial to moderate (r = –.43 to .33), whereas within-subject correlations were nearly perfect (r = .92–.98).Conclusions:PlayerLoad had a moderate to high degree of test–retest reliability and demonstrated convergent validity with measures of exercise intensity on an individual basis. However, caution should be applied in making between-athletes contrasts in loading and when using recordings from the scapulae to identify lower-limb movement patterns.

Semiology of the Pain Syndrome - Identifying the Ideal Methods of Locoregional Anesthesia Based on Their Rationale and Features

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (10) ◽  
pp. 2373-2377
Author(s):  
Mihaela Monica Scutariu ◽  
Vlad Danila ◽  
Corina Ciupilan ◽  
Oana Elena Ciurcanu
Keyword(s):  
Maxillofacial Surgery ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Pain Syndrome ◽  
Oral And Maxillofacial Surgery ◽  
Structuring Element ◽  
Technical Accuracy ◽  
Locoregional Anesthesia ◽  
Special Approach ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Degree

Anesthesia and the degree of control over the perception of pain depends on the personality of the individual, the socio-economic conditions, potential previous painful experiences and, last but not least, on fatigue and fear of the dentist. The perception of pain in patients is closely connected to their mental state. Pain is defined as a sensation of discomfort, with wide variations, both in quality and intensity, for different people in seemingly identical conditions; an unpleasant sensitive and emotional phenomena connected to the threat of a wound or caused in the tissues or described in the terms of this disease. The essential element of any type of anesthesia is analgesia, an effect which in some cases cannot be achived, due to the patient�s particularities or the physician�s lack of experience in anesthesia. Locoregional anesthesia (LRA) represents the blocking of the nociceptive sensitive and sympathetic autonomic afferents as well as that of motor efferents at the level of peripheral nerves� axons, by means of local anesthetic. To achieve the set purpose, we carried out a study on a representative human sample comprised of 10.123 patients treated in the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinic (Ambulatory) from the County Clinic Emergency Hospital St. Spiridon Iasi, between 01.01.2015-31.12.2016. The reason for the exclusion of certain categories of patients in the reseach was: the patients with a special conditions background require individual pre-anesthesia schemes, personalised for the nature of the pre-existing general condition, which must be further approved by the attending specialist physician : cardiologist, internist, diabetologist; children under 18 years old, with a high degree of anxiety; a high precentage of elderly patients, over 60 years old, possess a combination of general issues, thus requiring a special approach. The thoroughness lying at the core of the anesthetic practice, most especially the safegurading of a technical accuracy in the performance of anesthesia [12,], instead of improvisations, the lack of anatomical and stomatological training in general and the resulting inefficiency as such, is the underlying in-depth structuring element of this paper.

scholarly journals Territories of state-led aquaculture risk management: Thailand’s Plang Yai program

2020 ◽  
pp. 239965442096524
Author(s):  
Mariska JM Bottema ◽  
Simon R Bush ◽  
Peter Oosterveer
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Spatially Explicit ◽  
Financial Risks ◽  
Shared Resources ◽  
Globalizing World ◽  
Farmer Behavior ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Degree

The Thai aquaculture sector faces a range of production, market and financial risks that extend beyond the private space of farms to include public spaces and shared resources. The Thai state has attempted to manage these shared risks through its Plang Yai (or ‘Big Area’) agricultural extension program. Using the lens of territorialization, this paper investigates how, through the Plang Yai program, risk management is institutionalized through spatially explicit forms of collaboration amongst farmers and between farmers and (non-)state actors. We focus on how four key policy instruments brought together under Plang Yai delimited multiple territories of risk management over shrimp and tilapia production in Chantaburi and Chonburi provinces. Our findings demonstrate how these policy instruments address risks through dissimilar but overlapping territories that are selectively biased toward facilitating the individual management of production risks, whilst enabling both the individual and collective management of market and financial risks. This raises questions about the suitability of addressing aquaculture risks by controlling farmer behavior through state-led designation of singular, spatially explicit areas. The findings also indicate the multiple roles of the state in territorializing risk management, providing a high degree of flexibility, which is especially valuable in landscapes shared by many users, connected to (global) value chains and facing diverse risks. In doing so we demonstrate that understanding the territorialization of production landscapes in a globalizing world requires a dynamic approach recognizing the multiplicity of territories that emerge in risk management processes.

Finding Talent Among Elementary English Learners: A Validity Study of the HOPE Teacher Rating Scale

2021 ◽  
pp. 001698622098594
Author(s):  
Nielsen Pereira
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
English Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Rating Scales ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Teacher Rating ◽  
Esl Teachers ◽  
Invariance Testing ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
The One

The purpose of this study was to investigate the validity of the HOPE Scale for identifying gifted English language learners (ELs) and how classroom and English as a second language (ESL) teacher HOPE Scale scores differ. Seventy teachers completed the HOPE Scale on 1,467 students in grades K-5 and four ESL teachers completed the scale on 131 ELs. Measurement invariance tests indicated that the HOPE Scale yields noninvariant latent means across EL and English proficient (EP) samples. However, confirmatory factor analysis results support the use of the scale with ELs or EP students separately. Results also indicate that the rating patterns of classroom and ESL teachers were different and that the HOPE Scale does not yield valid data when used by ESL teachers. Caution is recommended when using the HOPE Scale and other teacher rating scales to compare ELs to EP students. The importance of invariance testing before using an instrument with a population that is different from the one(s) for which the instrument was developed is discussed.

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