On the Difficulty of Relational Concepts among Participants with Down Syndrome

Autor/inn/en	Facon, Bruno; Magis, David; Courbois, Yannick
Titel	On the Difficulty of Relational Concepts among Participants with Down Syndrome
Quelle	In: Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 33 (2012) 1, S.60-68 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0891-4222
DOI	10.1016/j.ridd.2011.08.014
Schlagwörter	Down Syndrome; Children; Test Items; Difficulty Level; Test Bias; Mental Retardation; Item Analysis; Boehm Test of Basic Concepts + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Downs Syndrome; Down''s Syndrome'; Down-Syndrom; Child; Kind; Kinder; Test content; Testaufgabe; Schwierigkeitsgrad; Testkritik; Geistige Behinderung; Itemanalyse
Abstract	The aim of the study was to compare the difficulty of relational concepts among participants with and without intellectual disability. The French versions of the Boehm Tests of Basic Concepts Third Edition (Preschool and Kindergarten to 2nd grade) were administered to three groups of 47 participants individually matched on their total raw score on the tests. The first group comprised participants with intellectual disability of undifferentiated etiology, the second, participants with Down syndrome and the third, typical children. Item analyses using the transformed item difficulties method to detect differential item functioning across groups showed that the groups' rank-orders of item difficulty were highly similar. It is concluded that, all things being equal, relational concepts are of comparable difficulty and follow a similar sequence of development whatever the cognitive and etiological status of participants. Methodological and theoretical implications of these findings are discussed. (Contains 2 figures and 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10