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The Development And Validation Of Australian Indices Of Child Development—Part I: Conceptualisation And Development, Ann Sanson, Sebastian Misson, Mary Hawkins, Donna Berthelsen
The Development And Validation Of Australian Indices Of Child Development—Part I: Conceptualisation And Development, Ann Sanson, Sebastian Misson, Mary Hawkins, Donna Berthelsen
Dr Sheldon Rothman
The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) is a major national study examining the lives of Australian children, using a cross-sequential cohort design and data from parents, children, and teachers for 5,107 infants (3–19 months) and 4,983 children (4–5 years). Its data are publicly accessible and are used by researchers from many disciplinary backgrounds. It contains multiple measures of children’s developmental outcomes as well as a broad range of information on the contexts of their lives. This paper reports on the development of summary outcome indices of child development using the LSAC data. The indices were developed to fill the …
The Development And Validation Of Australian Indices Of Child Development—Part Ii: Validity Support, Ann Sanson, Mary Hawkins, Sebastian Misson
The Development And Validation Of Australian Indices Of Child Development—Part Ii: Validity Support, Ann Sanson, Mary Hawkins, Sebastian Misson
Dr Sheldon Rothman
The two outcome indices described in a companion paper (Sanson et al., Child Indicators Research, 2009) were developed using data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC). These indices, one for infants and the other for 4 year to 5 year old children, were designed to fill the need for parsimonious measures of children’s developmental status to be used in analyses by a broad range of data users and to guide government policy and interventions to support young children’s optimal development. This paper presents evidence from Wave 1data from LSAC to support the validity of these indices and their …