Integrating Item Accuracy and Reaction Time to Improve the Measurement of Inhibitory Control Abilities in Early Childhood
Autor: | Clancy Blair, Laura J. Kuhn, Brooke E. Magnus, Michael T. Willoughby |
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Rok vydání: | 2017 |
Předmět: |
Program evaluation
Male 050103 clinical psychology Psychometrics New York Child Behavior 050109 social psychology Sample (statistics) Psychology Child Machine learning computer.software_genre Developmental psychology Executive Function Inhibitory control Task Performance and Analysis North Carolina Reaction Time Measurement precision Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Early childhood Applied Psychology business.industry 05 social sciences Clinical Psychology Inhibition Psychological Child Preschool Female Artificial intelligence business Psychology computer |
Zdroj: | Assessment. 26(7) |
ISSN: | 1552-3489 |
Popis: | Efforts to improve children’s executive function are often hampered by the lack of measures that are optimized for use during the transition from preschool to elementary school. Whereas preschool-based measures often emphasize response accuracy, elementary school-based measures emphasize reaction time (RT)—especially for measures inhibitory control (IC) tasks that typically have a speeded component. The primary objective of this study was to test in a preschool-aged sample whether the joint use of item-level accuracy and RT data resulted in improved scoring for three IC tasks relative to scores derived from accuracy data alone. Generally, the joint use of item-level accuracy and RT data resulted in modest improvements in the measurement precision of IC abilities. Moreover, the joint use of item-level accuracy and RT helped eliminate floor and ceiling effects that occurred when accuracy data were considered alone. Results are discussed with respect to the importance of scoring IC tasks in ways that are maximally informative for program evaluation and longitudinal modeling. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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