Standardized Measures

Question 1

What is an infants and child’s HR compared to an adult?

Answer 1

Adult (60-100)

Child (80-120)

Infant (100-140)

Question 2

What is an infants and child’s BP compared to an adult?

Answer 2

Adult (120/80)

Child (100/60)

Infant (80/40)

Question 3

What is a standardized test?

Answer 3

Task or set of tasks given under standard, set conditions, with rules for administration and scoring

Question 4

What are discriminative tests?

Answer 4

Discriminates performance of individual relative to norm-referenced sample

Question 5

What are evaluative tests?

Answer 5

Designed to measure change of performance over time

Question 6

What are predictive tests?

Answer 6

Designed to predict later outcomes

Question 7

What are the characteristics of discriminative tests?

Answer 7

Norm referenced

Comparison to peer performance

Normal distribution of scores

Individual vs peers

Not sensitive to effect of intervention

Question 8

What are the characteristics of evaluative tests?

Answer 8

Criterion-referenced

Pre-determined criterion

Individual vs himself

Sensitive to effects of intervention

Question 9

What is validity?

Answer 9

How well does a test measure what it is designed to measure

Question 10

What is inter-rater reliability?

Answer 10

Agreement between two or more raters of same test

Question 11

What is intra-rater reliability?

Answer 11

Consistency within same rater

Question 12

What is test-retest reliability?

Answer 12

Evaluates reproducibility of test results over 2 different administrations on same subject

Question 13

What is internal consistency?

Answer 13

Measure of the correlations between different items on the same test (how well the items measure the same construct)

Question 14

What is responsiveness?

Answer 14

Ability of an outcome measure to detect change over time

Question 15

What is the MDC (minimal detectable change)?

Answer 15

Absolute reliability

Identifies potential test error

Not a measure of meaningful change

Question 16

What is the MCID (minimal clinical important difference)?

Answer 16

Quantifies change important to patient

Relies on external criterion

Question 17

What is the raw score?

Answer 17

Number of items correct

Question 18

What does age equivalence mean?

Answer 18

Mean age when 50% of children would have tested similarly

Question 19

What are standardized scores?

Answer 19

Expressed in terms of of standard deviations and easily visualized on a bell curve

Question 20

What does percentile mean?

Answer 20

Indicates percentage of scores that fall below a particular value

Question 21

What is considered below the average score for common norm-referenced tests?

Answer 21

1 standard deviation

Question 22

What do standard scores often have a mean of?

Answer 22

100

Question 23

What do scaled scores often have a mean of?

Answer 23

10

Question 24

What is the capacity of a child?

Answer 24

What the child can do

Question 25

What is the performance of the child?

Answer 25

What the child actually does

Question 26

What does the APGAR scale measure?

Answer 26

How vigorous a baby is right after birth (higher score is better)

Question 27

If an infant scores a 7 or less at 5 minutes on the APGAR scale what does that mean?

Answer 27

They are at an increased risk for neurological deficits

Question 28

What does APGAR stand for?

Answer 28

Activity Pulse Grimace Appearance Respiration

Question 29

What is the dubowitz/ballard assessment used to determine?

Answer 29

Gestational age

Question 30

What is the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale used for?

Answer 30

Measures a newborns functioning Regulates breathing, temp, and autonomic system Quality of infants tone, activity level, and reflexes

Question 31

What does the Alberta Infant Motor Scale good at predicting?

Answer 31

The delay of independent walking in a child

Question 32

What is the Test of Infant Motor Performance good at predicting?

Answer 32

Delay of head control in a child

Question 33

What is the Bayley Scales of infant and Toddler development good at predicting?

Answer 33

If a child is delayed in sitting independently

Question 34

Know how to calculate chronological age and adjusted age (slides 50-53 on module 2 asyncs)