Child development with the D-score: turning milestones into measurement

Gates Open Research

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Stef van Buuren¹  Iris Eekhout¹ 

[1] Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO;University of Utrecht

关键词: child development;    Rasch model;    growth chart;    D-score;    item difficulty;    developmental milestones;    Dutch Development Instrument (Van Wiechenschema) measurement;    D-score standard deviation score (DAZ);    early intervention;    children 0-2 years;    preterm;   

DOI  :  10.12688/gatesopenres.13222.2

学科分类：电子与电气工程

来源: American Journal Of Pharmtech Research

【 摘 要 】

The chapter equips the reader with a basic understanding of robust psychometric methods that are needed to turn developmental milestones into measurements, introducing the fundamental issues in defining a unit for child development and demonstrates the relevant quantitative methodology. It reviews quantitative approaches to measuring child development; introduces the Rasch model in a non-technical way; shows how to estimate model parameters from real data; puts forth a set of principles for model evaluation and assessment of scale quality; analyses the relation between early D-scores and later intelligence; and compares the D-scores from three studies that all use the same instrument.

【 授权许可】

CC BY