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Reliability of the School AMPS measures.
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PMID:  21091123     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
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Abstract Aim: The purpose of this study was to use a variety of methods to evaluate and cross-validate the reliability estimates of the quality of schoolwork performance measures in the School Version of the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (School AMPS) (1). Methods: Split-half reliability was estimated based on School AMPS data from 6 194 students who had performed at least two school AMPS tasks. Two different split-half methods were used: splitting the School AMPS items vertically and splitting them horizontally. The Rasch equivalent of Cronbach's alpha for the full School AMPS evaluation and standard error of measurement (SEm) were also considered. Results: All three methods yielded high reliability coefficient estimates (r ≥ 0.70) and overall SEm was low. Conclusions: From a practice perspective, the results of this study are of clinical importance as they provide evidence that occupational therapists can have confidence in the consistency of the School AMPS measures when they are used in the process of making decisions about individual students, planning interventions, and later performing follow-up evaluations to measure the outcome.
Authors:
Michaela Munkholm; Britta Löfgren; Anne G Fisher
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article     Date:  2010-11-22
Journal Detail:
Title:  Scandinavian journal of occupational therapy     Volume:  19     ISSN:  1651-2014     ISO Abbreviation:  Scand J Occup Ther     Publication Date:  2012 Jan 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-12-20     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9502210     Medline TA:  Scand J Occup Ther     Country:  England    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  2-8     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Division of Occupational Therapy , Umeå University , Sweden.
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