VII. NIH TOOLBOX COGNITION BATTERY (CB): FACTOR STRUCTURE FOR 3 TO 15 YEAR OLDS
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Confirmatory factor analysis was used the evaluate the dimensional structure underlying the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery (CB) and the measures chosen to serve as concurrent validity criteria for the NIH Toolbox CB. These results were used to evaluate the convergent and discriminant validity of the CB in children ranging from 3 to 15 years of age. Results were evaluated separately for a 3- to 6-year-old group and a 8- to 15-year-old group because different validation measures were used in these age groups. Three distinct dimensions were found for the 3- to 6-year-old group: Vocabulary, Reading, and Fluid Abilities. Five dimensions were found for 8–15 year olds: Vocabulary, Reading, Episodic Memory, Working Memory, and Executive Function/Processing Speed. CB measures and their validation analogues consistently defined common factors in a pattern that broadly supported the convergent and discriminant validity of the CB, but results showed higher intercorrelation and less differentiation of cognitive dimensions in younger than in older children and in older children compared with adults. Age was strongly related to the cognitive dimensions underlying test performance in both groups of children and results are consistent with broader literature showing increasing differentiation of cognitive abilities associated with the rapid brain development that occurs from early childhood into adulthood.
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Initial validation work supported a multidimensional structure of cognition with episodic memory, vocabulary, reading, working memory, and a processing speed/executive functioning abilities.
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Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredInitial validation work provided initial evidence of convergent and discriminant validity among NIHTB-CB subtests.
“provided initial evidence of convergent and discriminant validity among NIHTB-CB subtests (Mungas et al., 2014; Mungas et al., 2013).”
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- Authors
- Mungas, D., Widaman, K., Zelazo, P. D., Tulsky, D., Heaton, R. K., Slotkin, J., Blitz, D. L., & Gershon, R. C.
- Corresponding author
- Mungas, Dan
- Venue
- Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2013-08
- Volume
- 78
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 103-118
- ISSN
- 0037-976X (ISSN-L)
- 1540-5834
- PMC
- PMC3950958
- OpenAlex
- W1534885514
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- FWCI
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- National Institute on Aging (P30AG010129, R01AG010220)
- National Institute of Mental Health (P30MH062512)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Developmental and Educational Neuropsychology
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Keywords
- NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery, factor structure, cognitive development, children, vocabulary, reading, episodic memory, working memory, executive function, processing speed, convergent validity, discriminant validity, brain development
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Age Factors, Child, Child, Preschool, Cognition, Factor Analysis, Statistical, Humans, National Institutes of Health (U.S.), Neuropsychological Tests, United States, Reproducibility of Results
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