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The assessment of at‐risk infants and toddlers with the Bayley Mental Scale and the Battelle Developmental Inventory: Beyond the data
Author(s) -
Gerken Kathryn C.,
Eliason Michelle J.,
Arthur Chris R.
Publication year - 1994
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(199407)31:3<181::aid-pits2310310302>3.0.co;2-q
Subject(s) - bayley scales of infant development , toddler , psychology , developmental psychology , scale (ratio) , child development , psychometrics , rating scale , clinical psychology , cognition , psychomotor learning , psychiatry , physics , quantum mechanics
The purpose of this study was to compare the usefulness of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development (BSID)‐Mental Scales and the Battelle Developmental Inventory (BDI) in assessing the abilities of infants and toddlers from teen‐parent families. The 34 children lived with their mothers, who ranged in age from 15 to 21. The results of the study indicate that these two developmental instruments cannot be used interchangeably and that one needs to look beyond the psychometric data in order to understand the results of infant and toddler assessment. The correlation between the BSID‐Mental Development Index (MDI) and BDI Total score was −.03.