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We need to talk about validity – A commentary on “Six solutions for more reliable infant research” from the viewpoint of an early executive functions researcher

In their methodological article, “Six solutions for more reliable infant research”, Byers‐Heinlein, Bergmann and Savalei (2021) present compelling arguments for why developmental researchers should report and consider measures of reliability more frequently in their work. They also provide useful gu...

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Autor principal: Holmboe, Karla
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9786875/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36583147
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/icd.2352
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description In their methodological article, “Six solutions for more reliable infant research”, Byers‐Heinlein, Bergmann and Savalei (2021) present compelling arguments for why developmental researchers should report and consider measures of reliability more frequently in their work. They also provide useful guidance on solutions to this “reliability crisis”. In this commentary, I highlight a further methodological aspect that I think is key to successful and robust infancy research, that of construct validity. I also discuss recent reliability data from my own research on early executive function development, analyses which were directly inspired by the target article. HIGHLIGHTS: Considering measurement reliability and effect sizes is important for robust infant research and for optimising infant tasks to measure group‐level effects or individual differences. Construct validity – making sure that we measure what we think we are measuring – is also important. A robust effect at the group‐level may not always restrict reliability – it depends on the amount of true variation between infants.
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spelling pubmed-97868752022-12-27 We need to talk about validity – A commentary on “Six solutions for more reliable infant research” from the viewpoint of an early executive functions researcher Holmboe, Karla Infant Child Dev Commentaries In their methodological article, “Six solutions for more reliable infant research”, Byers‐Heinlein, Bergmann and Savalei (2021) present compelling arguments for why developmental researchers should report and consider measures of reliability more frequently in their work. They also provide useful guidance on solutions to this “reliability crisis”. In this commentary, I highlight a further methodological aspect that I think is key to successful and robust infancy research, that of construct validity. I also discuss recent reliability data from my own research on early executive function development, analyses which were directly inspired by the target article. HIGHLIGHTS: Considering measurement reliability and effect sizes is important for robust infant research and for optimising infant tasks to measure group‐level effects or individual differences. Construct validity – making sure that we measure what we think we are measuring – is also important. A robust effect at the group‐level may not always restrict reliability – it depends on the amount of true variation between infants. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-06-07 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9786875/ /pubmed/36583147 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/icd.2352 Text en © 2022 The Author. Infant and Child Development published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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