1877338591     

1st ed.

Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023 [©2023]

1 online resource (205 pages)

Englisch

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978-1-000-80572-7

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Children learn to walk, speak, and think at an astonishing pace. The D-score presents a unified framework that places children and their developmental milestones from different tools onto the same scale, enabling comparisons in child development across populations, groups and individuals.

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Preface -- 1. Child development with the D-score: turning milestones into measurement -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 First 1000 days -- 1.1.2 Relevance of child development -- 1.1.3 Stunting as proxy for child development -- 1.1.4 Measuring neurocognitive development -- 1.1.5 Why this chapter? -- 1.1.6 Intended audience -- 1.2 Short history -- 1.2.1 What is child development? -- 1.2.2 Theories of child development -- 1.2.3 Example of motor development -- 1.2.4 Typical questions asked in child development -- 1.3 Quantifying child development -- 1.3.1 Age-based measurement of development -- 1.3.2 Probability-based measurement -- 1.3.3 Score-based measurement of development -- 1.3.4 Unit-based measurement of development -- 1.3.5 A unified framework -- 1.3.6 Why unit-based measurement? -- 1.4 The D-score -- 1.4.1 The Dutch Development Instrument (DDI) -- 1.4.2 Probability of passing a milestone given age -- 1.4.3 Probability of passing a milestone given D-score -- 1.4.4 Relation between age and the D-score -- 1.4.5 Measurement model for the D-score -- 1.4.6 Item response functions -- 1.4.7 Engelhard criteria for invariant measurement -- 1.4.8 Why take the Rasch model? -- 1.5 Computation -- 1.5.1 Identify nature of the problem -- 1.5.2 Item parameter estimation -- 1.5.3 Estimation of the D-score -- 1.5.4 Age-conditional references -- 1.6 Evaluation -- 1.6.1 Item fit -- 1.6.2 Person fit -- 1.6.3 Differential item functioning (DIF) -- 1.6.4 Item information -- 1.6.5 Reliability -- 1.7 Validity -- 1.7.1 Internal validity -- 1.7.2 External validity -- 1.8 Precision -- 1.8.1 SMOCC design: Standard and additional milestones -- 1.8.2 D-score from short tests -- 1.8.3 Impact of short tests on predicting IQ -- 1.9 Three studies.