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  • Title: Assessing development across cultures: Invariance of the Bayley-III Scales Across Seven International MAL-ED sites.
    Author: Pendergast LL, Schaefer BA, Murray-Kolb LE, Svensen E, Shrestha R, Rasheed MA, Scharf RJ, Kosek M, Vasquez AO, Maphula A, Costa H, Rasmussen ZA, Yousafzai A, Tofail F, Seidman JC, MAL-ED Network Investigators.
    Journal: Sch Psychol Q; 2018 Dec; 33(4):604-614. PubMed ID: 30507236.
    Abstract:
    The Bayley's Scales of Infant and Toddler Development-Third Edition (Bayley-III) were used to measure the development of 24-month-old children (N = 1,452) in the Interactions of Malnutrition and Enteric Infections: Consequences for Child Health and Development (MAL-ED) study (an international, multisite study on many aspects of child development). This study examined the factor structure and measurement equivalence/invariance of Bayley-III scores across 7 international research sites located in Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru, and South Africa. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used to identify the factor structure of Bayley-III scores. Subsequently, reliability analyses and item response theory analyses were applied, and invariance was examined using multiple-indicator, multiple-cause modeling. The findings supported the validity, but not invariance, of Bayley-III language scores at all seven sites and of the cognitive and motor scores at six sites. These findings provide support for the use of scores for research purposes, but mean comparison between sites is not recommended. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).
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