Dr Chen Mo publishes two articles on psychometric assessments

Dr Chen Mo, Education Research Scientist, Centre for Research in Child Development, Office of Education Research, published articles in two international journals – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment (JPA) and Heliyon. JPA is known for their quality of assessment-related research and Heliyon is an open-access science journal that reports scientifically accurate and valuable research across the world.

Dr Chen and Asst Prof Nah Yong Hwee from the Psychology and Child & Human Development (PCHD) Academic Group published an article on JPA, entitled “Measurement of advanced theory of mind in youths (Y-ToM): Development and psychometric properties”. The article describes the developments of using Strange Stories test to assess the advanced theory of mind for youths in the Singapore context. The study has been culturally adapted, and the article provided preliminary psychometric properties about the assessment.

Dr Chen published another article on Heliyon with Asst Prof Dutt Anuradha Salil Kumar from the PCHD Academic Group, on the “Systematic review of reviews on activities of daily living measures for children with developmental disabilities”. The objective of this article is to psychometrically validate the ADL measures across different specialties in the healthcare industry.