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Reliability and concurrent validity of light's retention scale
Author(s) -
Sandoval Jonathan
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6807(198010)17:4<442::aid-pits2310170404>3.0.co;2-m
Subject(s) - psychology , concurrent validity , test validity , maturity (psychological) , reliability (semiconductor) , scale (ratio) , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , psychometrics , internal consistency , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics
Light's Retention Scale was completed for 123 candidates to repeat the first grade. These same first‐grade children were tested with a number of measures of maturity, including achievement tests, measures of intellectual functioning, visual‐motor integration, self‐concept, and physical maturity. Results indicated that Light's total score is not sufficiently reliable and has little concurrent validity for making retention decisions. The total score should never be used.