An Independent Assessment of the Internal Reliability of the "Bilston and Ettingshall Sure Start (BESS) Speech and Language Therapy Two Year Developmental Check"

Autor/inn/en	Adamson-Macedo, Elvidina N.; Patel, Reena; Sallah, David K.
Titel	An Independent Assessment of the Internal Reliability of the "Bilston and Ettingshall Sure Start (BESS) Speech and Language Therapy Two Year Developmental Check"
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 179 (2009) 5, S.571-586 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
Schlagwörter	Screening Tests; Standardized Tests; Test Reliability; Correlation; Preschool Children; Disadvantaged Youth; Language Impairments; Speech Impairments; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom; MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory; Reynell Developmental Language Scales + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Screening-Verfahren; Standadised tests; Standardisierter Test; Testreliabilität; Korrelation; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Language handicps; Language impairments; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	Speech and language difficulties in British pre-school children from disadvantaged backgrounds have become increasingly prevalent over the last decade. Consequently, there has been a growing demand for a British standardised speech and language screening tool that is reliable and valid. In 2000, to fulfil the need of an appropriate tool that could meet all of their requirements, Bilston and Ettingshall Sure Start (BESS) developed a BESS Speech and Language Therapy Two Year Developmental Check. The focus of the current article is to examine the internal reliability of this tool using Cronbach's alpha, Kuder-Richardson and item-whole correlations. The BESS tool maintained an acceptable level of internal consistency on its quantitative and qualitative items and on all three sub-scales of Understanding, Expression and Speech. Item-whole correlations found no weak quantitative items (p less than 0.01). Thus, an internally consistent British standardised speech and language screening tool for two-year-old children has been developed. (Contains 5 tables.) (As Provided).
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