PO431: Bayley Scales of Infant Toddler Development-4: Age and Gender Invariance

  • PMD: 1,9
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Intermediate
  • Poster Session 4: Recent Developments in Assessment and Research

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. analyze similarities or differences between groups in their amount of variability, relations between abilities, and mean scores;
  2. explain the importance of establishing measurement invariance to provide validity evidence for test scores; and
  3. analyze whether the Bayley-4 measures the same cognitive, language, and motor abilities across girls and boys and age groups.

Description

Does the Bayley-4 measure the same cognitive, language, and motor abilities across girls and boys and age groups (ages 1–42 months)? Measurement invariance was tested using the normative sample.

Presenter(s)

Jacqueline M. Caemmerer, University of Connecticut
Johanna M. deLeyer-Tiarks, Adelphi University
Emily L. Winter, Touro University
Brittany A. Dale, Ball State University

Contributor(s)

Natalie Charamut, Emily Peters, Melissa A. Bray, Alan S. Kaufman

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