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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT
Volume 45, Issue 4, Pages 368-377Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/01650254211005560
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Early childhood development; validity and reliability; population-level measurement; low; and middle-income countries; multidimensional item factor analysis
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- Saving Brains Program from Grand Challenges Canada [0073-03]
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The present study describes the construction and psychometric properties of the motor, cognitive, language, and socio-emotional subscales from the CREDI's long form. Results suggest that the CREDI subscales display adequate reliability for population-level measurement, as well as evidence of validity.
The Caregiver Reported Early Development Instruments (CREDI) are assessments tools for measuring the development of children under age three in global contexts. The present study describes the construction and psychometric properties of the motor, cognitive, language, and socio-emotional subscales from the CREDI's long form. Multidimensional item factor analysis was employed, allowing indicators of child development to simultaneously load onto multiple factors representing distinct developmental domains. A total of 14,113 caregiver reports representing 17 low-, middle-, and high-income countries were analyzed. Criterion-related validity of the constructed subscales was tested in a subset of participants using data from previously established instruments, anthropometric data, and a measure of child stimulation. We also report internal-consistency reliability and test-retest reliability statistics. Results from our analysis suggest that the CREDI subscales display adequate reliability for population-level measurement, as well as evidence of validity.
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