Reliability and validity evidence of the early numeracy test for identifying children at risk for mathematical learning difficulties

By H. Hellstrand, J. Korhonen, Pekka Räsänen, Karin Linnanmäki, Pirjo Aunio *. International Journal of Educational Research, 2020

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Abstract This study investigated reliability and validity evidence regarding the Early Numeracy test (EN-test) in a sample of 1139 Swedish-speaking children (587 girls) in kindergarten (n = 361), first grade (n = 321), and second grade (n = 457). Structural validity evidence was established through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), which showed that a four-factor model fit the data significantly better than a one-factor or two-factor model. The known-group and cross-cultural validity were established through multigroup CFAs, finding that the four-factor model fit the gender, age and language groups equally well. Internal consistency for the test and sub-skills varied from good to excellent. The EN-test can be considered as an appropriate assessment to identify children at risk for mathematical learning difficulties.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Statistics and Probability

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