Guidelines, Criteria, and Rules of Thumb for Evaluating Normed and Standardized Assessment Instruments in Psychology.
- D. Cicchetti
- Psychology
- 1994
In the context of the development of prototypic assessment instruments in the areas of cognition, personality, and adaptive functioning, the issues of standardization, norming procedures, and the…
Developing criteria for establishing interrater reliability of specific items: applications to assessment of adaptive behavior.
- D. Cicchetti, S. Sparrow
- PsychologyAmerican journal of mental deficiency
- 1981
A set of criteria based upon biostatistical considerations for determining the interrater reliability of specific adaptive behavior items in a given setting was presented and guidelines for differentiating type of adaptive behavior that are statistically reliable from those that are reliable in a clinical or practical sense were delineated.
Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale: reliability and validity.
- L. Scahill, M. Riddle, J. Leckman
- Psychology, MedicineJournal of the American Academy of Child and…
- 1 June 1997
The CY-BOCS yields reliable and valid subscale and total scores for obsessive-compulsive symptom severity in children and adolescents with OCD and may be influenced by age of the child and the hazards associated with integrating data from parental and patient sources.
Social and Communication Abilities and Disabilities in Higher Functioning Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Vineland and the ADOS
- A. Klin, C. Saulnier, S. Sparrow, D. Cicchetti, F. Volkmar, C. Lord
- PsychologyJournal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
- 1 April 2007
Investigating ability and disability using the Vineland and Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule in two clinical samples of children with ASD finds a weak relationship was found between ability and Disability.
The Role of Adaptive Behavior in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Implications for Functional Outcome
- S. Kanne, A. Gerber, Linda M Quirmbach, S. Sparrow, D. Cicchetti, C. Saulnier
- PsychologyJournal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
- 1 August 2011
The results indicate that IQ is a strong predictor of adaptive behavior, the gap betweenIQ and adaptive impairments decreases in lower functioning individuals with ASD, and older individuals have a greater gap between IQ and adaptive skills.
Methodological Commentary The Precision of Reliability and Validity Estimates Re-Visited: Distinguishing Between Clinical and Statistical Significance of Sample Size Requirements
- D. Cicchetti
- PsychologyJournal of Clinical and Experimental…
- 1 October 2001
This critique will stress the inappropriateness of considering precision solely in the context of increasing N, or using sample sizes of 400 and more, as appears to be Charter's main objective or desideratum.
Development of the Evaluative Method for Evaluating and Determining Evidence-Based Practices in Autism
- B. Reichow, F. Volkmar, D. Cicchetti
- PsychologyJournal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
- 1 August 2008
A new method for the evaluation of empirical evidence is provided, and future uses of this evaluative method are provided as well as a discussion of how this tool might aid in narrowing the research to practice gap.
The Brief Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment: screening for social-emotional problems and delays in competence.
- M. Briggs-Gowan, A. Carter, J. Irwin, Karen Wachtel, D. Cicchetti
- Psychology, MedicineJournal of Pediatric Psychology
- 1 March 2004
Findings support the BITSEA as a screener for social-emotional/behavioral problems and delays in social- Emotional competence.
The reliability of peer review for manuscript and grant submissions: A cross-disciplinary investigation
- D. Cicchetti
- PsychologyBehavioral and Brain Sciences
- 1 March 1991
Abstract The reliability of peer review of scientific documents and the evaluative criteria scientists use to judge the work of their peers are critically reexamined with special attention to the…
The Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale: How Does It Compare with a "Gold Standard"?
- Z. Kain, L. Mayes, D. Cicchetti, A. Bagnall, Jessica D. Finley, M. Hofstadter
- PsychologyAnesthesia and Analgesia
- 1 October 1997
Evaluating the effectiveness of interventions directed toward the treatment of preoperative anxiety in children has been hindered by the absence of a statistically valid measurement tool.In a…
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