Revision of the Functional Emotional Assessment Scale

Timeline

Task	Method	Timeline
Establish “expert gold standard” coding on subset of FEAS-1	Donna Weston and Ursula Krentz Subset of Baby-Mom tapes	Spring 2010
Train coders on FEAS-1	4 Undergraduates (Karissa, Claire, Ashley, Danielle) Subset of Baby-Mom tapes	Spring 2010
Establish interrater reliability on FEAS-1	4 trained SPU undergraduates on subset of Baby-Mom tapes	Spring 2010
Code remainder of FEAS for UW Baby-Mom study	Ursula Krentz FEAS-full original (or FEAS-R?)	Summer 2010
Revise FEAS into Level of Impairment Measure	Donna Weston and Ursula Krentz
Train Coders on FEAS-R	SPU undergraudates (different than first 4?)
Establish construct (convergent) validity of FEAS-R	Convergent validity:  Compare scores of FEAS-full originalto FEAS-R using subset of Baby-Mom tapes
Code subset of Early Head Start tapes using FEAS-R	Trained SPU undergraduates
Establish construct (criterion) validity of FEAS-R	Crieterion validity:  Compare scores of FEAS-R to: - Behavioral outcome measures (child functional status) - Parent-child relationship quality
	Early Head Start data 60 cases - 14, 19, and 24 months
Evaluate stability of FEAS-R	Compare scores at 14, 19, 24 months EHS data set

 

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