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March 18, 2026European Journal of Education0 citationsOpen Access

Psychometric Properties of Measures to Assess Pre‐School Children's Literacy and Mathematics Developmental Skills

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CWChuang WangQLQiao LiuRLRichard Lambert

Key Points

  • The aim is to investigate the psychometric properties of assessments for preschool children's literacy and mathematics skills.
  • Gathered data on children’s engagement with an educational gaming system.
  • Teachers used rating scales to assess children's literacy and mathematics skills.
  • Employed Rasch analysis to evaluate unidimensionality, item difficulty, and reliability.
  • Initial reliability and validity statistics support the usefulness of the measures.
  • Indicators of children's developmental status can be determined from teacher assessments.

Abstract

ABSTRACT This study examined the psychometric properties of two new assessment measures, which consist of developmental progressions of pre‐school children in literacy skills and mathematics skills respectively. Researchers gathered data to measure the extent of children's engagement with an educational gaming system and the skill levels they attained within the system. Additionally, teachers rated the children's developmental status using rating scales focused on literacy and mathematics skills. Rasch analysis was employed to examine the unidimensionality, item difficulty, reliability, and rating scale category effectiveness of the items. The initial reliability and validity statistics offer evidence that supports the usefulness of the information the measures can provide as a source of indicators of child developmental status from the perspective of teachers.

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Wang et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69ba43e94e9516ffd37a59b6https://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.70581
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