The Process of Instrument Development for Ethnically Diverse Early Adolescents

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ID11670768
AutoresNancy Anderson (University of California, Los Angeles, autor de correspondencia), Nancy Lois Ruth Anderson (University of California, Los Angeles), Gwen Uman (Vital Research), Gwen C Uman (Vital Research), Colleen Keenan (University of California, Los Angeles), Colleen K Keenan (University of California, Los Angeles), Deborah Koniak-Griffin (University of California, Los Angeles), Deborah Koniak‐Griffin (0000-0002-0974-2815, University of California, Los Angeles), Conerly Casey (University of California, Los Angeles)
Año1996
Volumen16
Número4
Páginas427-450
Fecha de publicación1996-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Early Adolescence (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0272-4316 • E-ISSN: 1552-5449
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0272431696016004004
OpenAlexW2164331766
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas16

Through a combination of pilot study, consultation, and field-testing, an instrument was developed to evaluate the major content areas in the curriculum of a community-based family life education program: parent/child communication, peer influence, family values, self-efficacy, sexuality knowledge, and high-risk behaviors. The wording, format, and question content were structured to be appropriate developmentally for male and female early adolescents J0 through 14 years of age in diverse sociocultural communities in Los Angeles County. Age-related developmental issues facing early adolescents, combined with the ethnic diversity in the county, created serious challenges to the development of a valid, reliable, and relevant instrument for evaluating the effectiveness of an adolescent family life education program. An instrument with some stable and internally consistent components was developed through the key processes of pilot testing and field-testing with focus groups from the target population of ethnically diverse early adolescents

Curriculum · Developmental psychology · Diversity (politics · Environmental health · Ethnic group · Ethnically diverse · Human sexuality · Medical education · Pedagogy · Political science · Population · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Early Childhood Education and Development · Medicine · Parental Involvement in Education · Psychology