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Evaluating the Predictive Validity of the Computerized Comprehension Task: Comprehension Predicts Production
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Friend, Margaret; Schmitt, Sara A.; Simpson, Adrianne M. – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Until recently, the challenges inherent in measuring comprehension have impeded our ability to predict the course of language acquisition. The present research reports on a longitudinal assessment of the convergent and predictive validity of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories: Words and Gestures (CDI: WG; Fenson et al.,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Predictive Validity, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory
Maternal Responsiveness to Young Children at Three Ages: Longitudinal Analysis of a Multidimensional, Modular, and Specific Parenting Construct
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.; Hahn, Chun-Shin; Haynes, O. Maurice – Developmental Psychology, 2008
Responsiveness defines the prompt, contingent, and appropriate reactions parents display to their children in the context of everyday exchanges. Maternal responsiveness occupies a theoretically central position in developmental science and possesses meaningful predictive validity over diverse domains of children's development, yet basic…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship, Psychometrics
Early Infant Home Environments: Validation of the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment Inventory.
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Hollenbeck, Albert R. – Developmental Psychology, 1978
A sample of 70 mother-infant dyads were used to cross-validate and test the concurrent validity of the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment Inventory (HOME). (Author/SS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Family Environment, Infants, Mothers
A Factor Analytic Study of the HOME Scale for Infants.
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Stevens, Joseph H., Jr.; Bakeman, Roger – Developmental Psychology, 1985
A factor analysis was conducted on Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) item scores of low-income black and white urban mothers of infants 13 to 30 months of age to determine the extent to which the existing subscales were evident in this factor analysis.
Descriptors: Blacks, Cognitive Development, Factor Analysis, Infants
Performance of 14- to 22-Month-Old Black, Firstborn Male Infants on Two Tests of Cognitive Development: The Bayley Scales and the Infant Psychological Development Scales
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King, William L.; Seegmiller, Bonni – Developmental Psychology, 1973
Descriptors: Black Youth, Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology, Infants
Measures of Infant Development and Socioeconomic Status as Predictors of Later Intelligence and School Achievement.
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Rubin, Rosalyn A.; Balow, Bruce – Developmental Psychology, 1979
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Elementary School Students, Infants
Infant-Adult Attachments on the Kibbutz and Their Relation to Socioemotional Development 4 Years Later.
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Oppenheim, David; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1988
The social development of 59 kibbutz-reared five-year-olds, whose attachments to mothers, fathers, and metaplott were assessed when they were 11 to 14 months old, was investigated. Findings raise questions regarding the developmental significance of attachment relationships with various significant adults. (RH)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Caregivers, Emotional Development, Fathers