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Betancourt, Theresa; Scorza, Pamela; Meyers-Ohki, Sarah; Mushashi, Christina; Kayiteshonga, Yvonne; Binagwaho, Agnes; Stulac, Sara; Beardslee, William R. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2012
Objective: We assessed the validity of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale for Children (CES-DC) as a screen for depression in Rwandan children and adolescents. Although the CES-DC is widely used for depression screening in high-income countries, its validity in low-income and culturally diverse settings, including sub-Saharan…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Depression (Psychology), Psychological Testing, Test Validity
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Beck, Brett L.; Spruill, Jean – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1987
Assessed validity of the Personality Inventory for Children (PIC) using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) and the Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT) as criterion instruments. The cognitive triad of the PIC was minimally correlated with all intelligence quotient measures and significantly correlated only for reading and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Children, Concurrent Validity, Intelligence Quotient
Webster, Raymond E. – 2000
This paper examines the discriminative validity of the Learning Efficiency Test II (LET-II; Webster, 1998) in distinguishing among children diagnosed as having ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) only, ADHD and an accompanying learning disability, ADHD-predominantly inactive type, and a control group. Children (N=132) between the ages…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attention Deficit Disorders, Children, Cognitive Development