On the Nature of Informant Judgments in Inventory Measures: . . . And So What Is It You Want to Know?.

Stiles, Joan

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Publication Date: 1994

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On the Nature of Informant Judgments in Inventory Measures: . . . And So What Is It You Want to Know?

Stiles, Joan

Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, v59 n5 p180-85 1994

Considers the bases of criticism of parent report as an index of their children's behavioral development and ways in which problems associated with parent report were addressed in the construction of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs). Examines the nature of responses elicited from parents as they complete the CDIs. (BC)

Descriptors: Behavior Development, Body Language, Child Behavior, Data Collection, Infants, Language Acquisition, Parents, Test Construction, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Toddlers, Vocabulary Development

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory

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