Transcultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the International Development and Early Learning Assessment (IDELA) in Brazilian pre-school children
Early childhood is a sensitive period for development, and it is important to use psychometrically sound instruments to assess the child's developmental abilities. The International Development and Early Learning Assessment (IDELA) represents an innovative, feasible and low-cost assessment tool...
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| author | Ilana Shavitt Monica Ayres de Araujo Scatollin Adriana Suzart Ungaretti Rossi Mariana Pacífico Mercadante Luciano Gamez Rosa Miranda Resegue Lauren Pisani Maria Conceição do Rosário |
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| description | Early childhood is a sensitive period for development, and it is important to use psychometrically sound instruments to assess the child's developmental abilities. The International Development and Early Learning Assessment (IDELA) represents an innovative, feasible and low-cost assessment tool for preschool children that evaluates motor development, pre-numeracy, pre-literacy, and socioemotional development. These areas of development represent “key” skills for early development and school readiness. The objectives of this study were to translate the IDELA to Brazilian Portuguese, to conduct its cultural adaptation to the Brazilian population, to analyze its content validity, to assess its inter-rater reliability, to analyze the internal consistency of its sub-domains and to investigate associations between the child's IDELA scores and sociodemographic characteristics of the family. This was a descriptive, cross-sectional study, in which a sample of 565 preschool children were assessed with the IDELA in the city of Embu das Artes, São Paulo. Results indicated that the IDELA was successfully translated and culturally adapted to the Brazilian population, presenting adequate content validity, good internal consistency of its sub-domains and very high inter-rater reliability. Among the evaluated children, the girls' mean scores were higher than the boys' mean scores; 5-year-old children had higher scores than 4-year-old children; a positive correlation was observed between maternal education and the children's mean scores in the total IDELA, the pre-mathematics and the socioemotional subdomains. In conclusion, the Brazilian version of the IDELA proved to be feasible, adequate and reliable to assess early childhood development and school readiness of preschool age children in Brazil. Future studies could use the IDELA to provide relevant data about the children's development and school readiness in other Brazilian regions that will be useful in the planning of public health and education policies to improve children's integral development and their academic achievement. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b78b1d29547a40468de1c7206be873eb2022-12-22T03:00:15ZengElsevierInternational Journal of Educational Research Open2666-37402022-01-013100138Transcultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the International Development and Early Learning Assessment (IDELA) in Brazilian pre-school childrenIlana Shavitt0Monica Ayres de Araujo Scatollin1Adriana Suzart Ungaretti Rossi2Mariana Pacífico Mercadante3Luciano Gamez4Rosa Miranda Resegue5Lauren Pisani6Maria Conceição do Rosário7Early Childhood Attention Program (PAPI) at the Department of Psychiatry at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) , BrazilEarly Childhood Attention Program (PAPI) at the Department of Psychiatry at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) , Brazil; Departamento de Reprodução Humana e Infância da Faculdade de Ciências Médicas e da Saúde da Pontifícia Universidade católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP) , BrazilEarly Childhood Attention Program (PAPI) at the Department of Psychiatry at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) , BrazilChildhood Development Center at the Department of Pediatrics at the University of São Paulo (USP) , BrazilEarly Childhood Attention Program (PAPI) at the Department of Psychiatry at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) , Brazil; Brazilian Open University at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) , BrazilDepartment of Pediatrics at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) , BrazilSave The Children, United StatesEarly Childhood Attention Program (PAPI) at the Department of Psychiatry at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) , Brazil; Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit (UPIA) at the Department of Psychiatry at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) , Brazil; Corresponding author at: Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Address: Rua Major Maragliano, 241, Vila Mariana, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, Zip code: 04038000.Early childhood is a sensitive period for development, and it is important to use psychometrically sound instruments to assess the child's developmental abilities. The International Development and Early Learning Assessment (IDELA) represents an innovative, feasible and low-cost assessment tool for preschool children that evaluates motor development, pre-numeracy, pre-literacy, and socioemotional development. These areas of development represent “key” skills for early development and school readiness. The objectives of this study were to translate the IDELA to Brazilian Portuguese, to conduct its cultural adaptation to the Brazilian population, to analyze its content validity, to assess its inter-rater reliability, to analyze the internal consistency of its sub-domains and to investigate associations between the child's IDELA scores and sociodemographic characteristics of the family. This was a descriptive, cross-sectional study, in which a sample of 565 preschool children were assessed with the IDELA in the city of Embu das Artes, São Paulo. Results indicated that the IDELA was successfully translated and culturally adapted to the Brazilian population, presenting adequate content validity, good internal consistency of its sub-domains and very high inter-rater reliability. Among the evaluated children, the girls' mean scores were higher than the boys' mean scores; 5-year-old children had higher scores than 4-year-old children; a positive correlation was observed between maternal education and the children's mean scores in the total IDELA, the pre-mathematics and the socioemotional subdomains. In conclusion, the Brazilian version of the IDELA proved to be feasible, adequate and reliable to assess early childhood development and school readiness of preschool age children in Brazil. Future studies could use the IDELA to provide relevant data about the children's development and school readiness in other Brazilian regions that will be useful in the planning of public health and education policies to improve children's integral development and their academic achievement.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666374022000176Early childhood developmentAssessmentPreschool age childrenTranslationCultural adaptationInter-rater reliability |
| spellingShingle | Ilana Shavitt Monica Ayres de Araujo Scatollin Adriana Suzart Ungaretti Rossi Mariana Pacífico Mercadante Luciano Gamez Rosa Miranda Resegue Lauren Pisani Maria Conceição do Rosário Transcultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the International Development and Early Learning Assessment (IDELA) in Brazilian pre-school children International Journal of Educational Research Open Early childhood development Assessment Preschool age children Translation Cultural adaptation Inter-rater reliability |
| title | Transcultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the International Development and Early Learning Assessment (IDELA) in Brazilian pre-school children |
| title_full | Transcultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the International Development and Early Learning Assessment (IDELA) in Brazilian pre-school children |
| title_fullStr | Transcultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the International Development and Early Learning Assessment (IDELA) in Brazilian pre-school children |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transcultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the International Development and Early Learning Assessment (IDELA) in Brazilian pre-school children |
| title_short | Transcultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the International Development and Early Learning Assessment (IDELA) in Brazilian pre-school children |
| title_sort | transcultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the international development and early learning assessment idela in brazilian pre school children |
| topic | Early childhood development Assessment Preschool age children Translation Cultural adaptation Inter-rater reliability |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666374022000176 |
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