Parents' perspective in the evaluation of a parental report inventory for the assessment of child communication development
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Parents’ reports are accepted in practice and can be a valid and reliable source of information
in research on children’s communicative development and any delays in this. Nevertheless,
parents’ reports may have important limitations that need to be considered: parental positive
bias; parents’ understanding of the child language comprehension; and parents’ education and
limited linguistic knowledge. In this paper, we take the stance that parents are most interested
in an adequate assessment, and obtaining reliable input from them is certainly important. We
amplify the voice of parents by synthesizing their experiences with a parental report inventory
as a method based on the usage of the adapted version of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative
Development Inventory. With that aim, we conducted a qualitative inductive thematic analysis
of focus group discussions and additional open-ended validation questions. Six emerging
themes and sub-themes were identified and presented with il...lustrative quotations. Results
revealed that the adaptation of original CDIs to languages with radically different morphosyntactic
structures may produce items that are hard to recognize and understand without a context. We bring to light parent-specific difficulties in performing this task and provide a
critical understanding of parents’ reports as a method of language development assessment. We
discuss potential solutions to parents’ dilemmas that inevitably arise when reporting on their
child’s communication, as well as answers to researchers’/practitioners’ dilemmas regarding the
validity and reliability of parental reporting.
Кључне речи:
communication development / child communication assessment / parents reports / parental involvement / thematic analysis / razvoj komunikacije / procena komunikacije deteta / izvešaj roditelja / uključenost roditelja / tematska analizaИзвор:
Journal of the Institute for Educational Research, 2023, 55, 1, 113-142Издавач:
- Institute for Educational Research
Финансирање / пројекти:
- Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade - Faculty of Philosophy (451-03-47/2023-01/200163)
- Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Philology (451-03-47/2023-01/200167)
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Psihologija / PsychologyTY - JOUR AU - Anđelković, Darinka AU - Savić, Maja AU - Tutnjević, Slavica PY - 2023 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/4629 AB - Parents’ reports are accepted in practice and can be a valid and reliable source of information in research on children’s communicative development and any delays in this. Nevertheless, parents’ reports may have important limitations that need to be considered: parental positive bias; parents’ understanding of the child language comprehension; and parents’ education and limited linguistic knowledge. In this paper, we take the stance that parents are most interested in an adequate assessment, and obtaining reliable input from them is certainly important. We amplify the voice of parents by synthesizing their experiences with a parental report inventory as a method based on the usage of the adapted version of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory. With that aim, we conducted a qualitative inductive thematic analysis of focus group discussions and additional open-ended validation questions. Six emerging themes and sub-themes were identified and presented with illustrative quotations. Results revealed that the adaptation of original CDIs to languages with radically different morphosyntactic structures may produce items that are hard to recognize and understand without a context. We bring to light parent-specific difficulties in performing this task and provide a critical understanding of parents’ reports as a method of language development assessment. We discuss potential solutions to parents’ dilemmas that inevitably arise when reporting on their child’s communication, as well as answers to researchers’/practitioners’ dilemmas regarding the validity and reliability of parental reporting. PB - Institute for Educational Research T2 - Journal of the Institute for Educational Research T1 - Parents' perspective in the evaluation of a parental report inventory for the assessment of child communication development EP - 142 IS - 1 SP - 113 VL - 55 DO - 10.2298/ZIPI2301113A ER -
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Anđelković, D., Savić, M.,& Tutnjević, S.. (2023). Parents' perspective in the evaluation of a parental report inventory for the assessment of child communication development. in Journal of the Institute for Educational Research Institute for Educational Research., 55(1), 113-142. https://doi.org/10.2298/ZIPI2301113A
Anđelković D, Savić M, Tutnjević S. Parents' perspective in the evaluation of a parental report inventory for the assessment of child communication development. in Journal of the Institute for Educational Research. 2023;55(1):113-142. doi:10.2298/ZIPI2301113A .
Anđelković, Darinka, Savić, Maja, Tutnjević, Slavica, "Parents' perspective in the evaluation of a parental report inventory for the assessment of child communication development" in Journal of the Institute for Educational Research, 55, no. 1 (2023):113-142, https://doi.org/10.2298/ZIPI2301113A . .