Kucker Sarah C, Chmielewski Michael
Department of Psychology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA.
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Infant Child Dev. 2022 Sep-Oct;31(5). doi: 10.1002/icd.2325. Epub 2022 May 3.
The field of development needs more reliable infant work - improving our measures and methods is at the heart of accurately understanding why children do what they do! However, as scientists, we cannot stop with reliability but must also include measures of validity in our studies. In this commentary, we clarify and expand upon discussions of reliability and measurement error. We also argue for the importance of assessing the validity of our measures and tasks. Indeed, careful considerations of both reliability and validity are necessary for improving infant research.
发展领域需要更可靠的婴幼儿研究——改进我们的测量方法和手段是准确理解儿童行为原因的核心!然而,作为科学家,我们不能仅停留在可靠性上,还必须在研究中纳入效度测量。在这篇评论中,我们澄清并扩展了关于可靠性和测量误差的讨论。我们还强调了评估我们的测量方法和任务效度的重要性。事实上,仔细考虑可靠性和效度对于改进婴幼儿研究都是必要的。