Parents’ perspective in the evaluation of a parental report inventory for the assessment of child communication development
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; paren...
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| author | Anđelković Darinka Savić Maja Tutnjević Slavica |
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| description | 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 morpho-syntactic 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a40f3940c94e40d3b05d53162bb731b92023-08-09T12:42:48ZsrpInstitute for Educational Research, BelgradeZbornik Instituta za pedagoška istraživanja0579-64311820-92702023-01-0155111314210.2298/ZIPI2301113A0579-64312301113AParents’ perspective in the evaluation of a parental report inventory for the assessment of child communication developmentAnđelković Darinka0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8238-4460Savić Maja1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3442-6021Tutnjević Slavica2University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade, SerbiaUniversity of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology, Belgrade, SerbiaUniversity of Banja Luka, Faculty of Philosophy, Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and HerzegovinaParents’ 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 morpho-syntactic 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.https://doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0579-6431/2023/0579-64312301113A.pdfcommunication developmentchild communication assessmentparents reportsparental involvementand thematic analysis |
| spellingShingle | Anđelković Darinka Savić Maja Tutnjević Slavica Parents’ perspective in the evaluation of a parental report inventory for the assessment of child communication development Zbornik Instituta za pedagoška istraživanja communication development child communication assessment parents reports parental involvement and thematic analysis |
| title | Parents’ perspective in the evaluation of a parental report inventory for the assessment of child communication development |
| title_full | Parents’ perspective in the evaluation of a parental report inventory for the assessment of child communication development |
| title_fullStr | Parents’ perspective in the evaluation of a parental report inventory for the assessment of child communication development |
| title_full_unstemmed | Parents’ perspective in the evaluation of a parental report inventory for the assessment of child communication development |
| title_short | Parents’ perspective in the evaluation of a parental report inventory for the assessment of child communication development |
| title_sort | parents perspective in the evaluation of a parental report inventory for the assessment of child communication development |
| topic | communication development child communication assessment parents reports parental involvement and thematic analysis |
| url | https://doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0579-6431/2023/0579-64312301113A.pdf |
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