The Hong Kong behaviour checklist for primary students: Developing a brief dyslexia screening measure

The Hong Kong behaviour checklist for primary students: Developing a brief dyslexia screening measure

• Chan, David W. Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Ho, Connie S. H. Dept. of Educational Psychology, University of Hong Kong
• Chung, Kevin K. H. Dept. of Psychology, Hong Kong Institute of Education
• Tsang, Suk Man Dept. of Special Education and Counselling, Hong Kong Government
• Lee, Suk Han Dept. of Educational Psychology, University of Hong Kong

International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 59(2), 173-196, 2012

Routledge

2012

• L Educational Measurement & Evaluation
  • LB Attitude & Interest Tests
• A Human Growth & Development
  • AG Child Development & Health
• B Human Behaviour
  • BB Interests, Attitudes & Values

Adaptive Testing Behaviour Checklist Chinese Children Dyslexia Hong Kong Primary Students Rasch Scaling Receiver Operating Characteristics Analysis Screening

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Primary Education

The authors report on the development of a brief dyslexia screening measure based on revising the 65-item Hong Kong Behaviour Checklist of Specific Learning Difficulties in Reading and Writing. Teachers' ratings of 1063 primary students aged 614 years on the behaviour checklist provided data for its psychometric evaluation using traditional measurement and Rasch measurement model analyses. Rasch scaling suggested that the revised 36-item checklist could be regarded as a unidimensional scale that assesses global dyslexic dysfunction, and receiver operating characteristics analysis suggested that a score of 18 could be an optimal cut-off score when it is used as a dyslexia screening measure. The validity of this revised checklist was supported by its substantial and significant correlations with external measures of literacy and cognitive skills. Implications of the findings for the use of adaptive testing to provide an effective procedure for screening are discussed.
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• English

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• 1034912X

• 10.1080/1034912X.2012.676437

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2014-01-18