TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessing development across cultures
T2 - Invariance of the Bayley-III scales across seven international MAL-ED sites
AU - Pendergast, Laura L.
AU - Schaefer, Barbara A.
AU - Murray-Kolb, Laura E.
AU - Svensen, Erling
AU - Shrestha, Rita
AU - Rasheed, Muneera A.
AU - Scharf, Rebecca J.
AU - Kosek, Margaret
AU - Vasquez, Angel Orbe
AU - Maphula, Angelina
AU - Costa, Hilda
AU - Rasmussen, Zeba A.
AU - Yousafzai, Aisha
AU - Tofail, Fahmida
AU - Seidman, Jessica C.
AU - Acosta, Angel Mendez
AU - de Burga, Rosa Rios
AU - Chavez, Cesar Banda
AU - Flores, Julian Torres
AU - Olotegui, Maribel Paredes
AU - Pinedo, Silvia Rengifo
AU - Salas, Mery Siguas
AU - Trigoso, Dixner Rengifo
AU - Ahmed, Imran
AU - Alam, Didar
AU - Ali, Asad
AU - Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.
AU - Qureshi, Shahida
AU - Rasheed, Muneera
AU - Soofi, Sajid
AU - Turab, Ali
AU - Zaidi, Anita K.M.
AU - Bodhidatta, Ladaporn
AU - Ammu, Geetha
AU - Babji, Sudhir
AU - Bose, Anuradha
AU - George, Ajila T.
AU - Hariraju, Dinesh
AU - Jennifer, M. Steffi
AU - John, Sushil
AU - Kaki, Shiny
AU - Kang, Gagandeep
AU - Karunakaran, Priyadarshani
AU - Koshy, Beena
AU - Lazarus, Robin P.
AU - Muliyil, Jayaprakash
AU - Ragasudha, Preethi
AU - Raghava, Mohan Venkata
AU - Raju, Sophy
AU - McCormick, Benjamin J.J.
AU - MAL-ED Network Investigators
N1 - Funding Information:
The Etiology, Risk Factors, and Interactions of Enteric Infections and Malnutrition and the Consequences for Child Health and Development Project (MAL-ED) is carried out as a collaborative project supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, and the National Institutes of Health/Fogarty International Center. We thank the staff and participants of the MAL-ED Network Project for their important contributions. See Appendix for MAL-ED Network Investigator names and affiliations.
PY - 2018/12/1
Y1 - 2018/12/1
N2 - The Bayley's Scales of Infant and Toddler Development-Third Edition (Bayley-III) were used to measure the development of 24-month-old children (N = 1,452) in the Interactions of Malnutrition and Enteric Infections: Consequences for Child Health and Development (MAL-ED) study (an international, multisite study on many aspects of child development). This study examined the factor structure and measurement equivalence/invariance of Bayley-III scores across 7 international research sites located in Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru, and South Africa. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used to identify the factor structure of Bayley-III scores. Subsequently, reliability analyses and item response theory analyses were applied, and invariance was examined using multiple-indicator, multiple-cause modeling. The findings supported the validity, but not invariance, of Bayley-III language scores at all seven sites and of the cognitive and motor scores at six sites. These findings provide support for the use of scores for research purposes, but mean comparison between sites is not recommended.
AB - The Bayley's Scales of Infant and Toddler Development-Third Edition (Bayley-III) were used to measure the development of 24-month-old children (N = 1,452) in the Interactions of Malnutrition and Enteric Infections: Consequences for Child Health and Development (MAL-ED) study (an international, multisite study on many aspects of child development). This study examined the factor structure and measurement equivalence/invariance of Bayley-III scores across 7 international research sites located in Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru, and South Africa. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used to identify the factor structure of Bayley-III scores. Subsequently, reliability analyses and item response theory analyses were applied, and invariance was examined using multiple-indicator, multiple-cause modeling. The findings supported the validity, but not invariance, of Bayley-III language scores at all seven sites and of the cognitive and motor scores at six sites. These findings provide support for the use of scores for research purposes, but mean comparison between sites is not recommended.
KW - Bayley-III
KW - Infant development
KW - Low- and middle-income countries
KW - Structural validity
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U2 - 10.1037/spq0000264
DO - 10.1037/spq0000264
M3 - Article
C2 - 30507236
AN - SCOPUS:85057772294
SN - 1045-3830
VL - 33
SP - 604
EP - 614
JO - School Psychology Quarterly
JF - School Psychology Quarterly
IS - 4
ER -
