Vanessa Maziero Barbosa, Everett V Smith, Arend Bos, Giovanni Cioni, Fabrizio Ferrari, Andrea Guzzetta, Peter B Marschik, Jasmin Pansy, Berndt Urlesberger, Hong Yang, Christa Einspieler
AIM: To explore the psychometric properties of the general movements optimality score (GMOS) by examining its dimensionality, rating scale functioning, and item hierarchies using Rasch measurement. METHODS: Secondary data analysis of the GMOS data for video-recording of 383 infants with uni-, multidimensional, and mixed Rasch partial credit models. Videos were scored based on the global General Movement Assessment categories, and on the amplitude, speed, spatial range, proximal and distal rotations, onset and offset, tremulous and cramped components of the upper and lower extremities (21 items), resulting in the GMOS...
2020: Journal of Applied Measurement