Evaluation of a New Adolescent Social Communication Assessment: The Transition Pragmatics Interview.
Purpose: This study evaluated the psychometric functioning of a new criterionreferenced assessment of adolescent social communication, the Transition Pragmatics Interview (TPI), based on the synthesis model of pragmatics. Two ways of interpreting item difficulty were explored: (a) as a function of t...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 67; no. 7; pp. 2353 - 2367 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=178362743&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 178362743 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10924388 1SM jtl: Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research issn: 10924388 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul2024 vid: 67 iid: 7 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 178362743 10.1044/2024_JSLHR-23-00709 ppf: 2353 ppct: 14 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 935KB tig: atl: Evaluation of a New Adolescent Social Communication Assessment: The Transition Pragmatics Interview. aug: au: Poll, Gerard H. Boone, William J. Petru, Janis affil: Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Miami University, Oxford, OH. Department of Educational Psychology, Program in Learning Sciences and Human Development, Miami University, Oxford, OH. Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Elmhurst University, IL. su: Teenagers' conduct of life Communication Social skills Psychometrics Vocabulary Self-consciousness (Awareness) Adolescence Multitrait multimethod techniques Research funding Data analysis Cronbach's alpha Research methodology evaluation Scientific observation Research evaluation Descriptive statistics Experimental design Research methodology Statistics Mathematical models Theory sug: subj: Teenagers' conduct of life Communication Social skills Psychometrics Vocabulary Self-consciousness (Awareness) Adolescence Multitrait multimethod techniques Research funding Data analysis Cronbach's alpha Research methodology evaluation Scientific observation Research evaluation Descriptive statistics Experimental design Research methodology Statistics Mathematical models Theory ab: Purpose: This study evaluated the psychometric functioning of a new criterionreferenced assessment of adolescent social communication, the Transition Pragmatics Interview (TPI), based on the synthesis model of pragmatics. Two ways of interpreting item difficulty were explored: (a) as a function of the synthesis model elements of social communication ability that items were designed to assess, and (b) as a function of the developmental level required for a successful response based on an adapted situational-discourse-semantics (SDS) model (Norris & Hoffman, 1993). Method: Thirty-seven participants aged 14–22 years completed the TPI. Responses were analyzed using Rasch analysis to evaluate the functioning of the scale and to determine item difficulty. Items were coded for the SDS developmental level required for an adequate response. The mean Rasch item difficulty for items at each SDS developmental level was analyzed for the five adapted SDS domains. Results: Consistent with the first approach for interpreting item difficulty, TPI items varied in difficulty as a function of the element of social communication they were designed to assess (p < .001). Interpreting item difficulty based on the adapted SDS model was not supported: Items requiring higher SDS developmental levels were not more difficult than those requiring less (p = .55). Conclusions: The TPI responses fit the Rasch model, supporting the TPI as a unidimensional measure and supporting the use of all items together to compute a single number that summarizes the level of social communication for each examinee. The item ordering from least to most difficult was consistent with prior findings on adolescent social communication development. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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