Infancy researchers need to change the way they develop their measures: A comment on Byers‐Heinlein et al. (2021)

Reinelt, Tilman; Wermelinger, Stephanie; Beck, Sabrina; Brehm, Julia; Helbling, Natascha; Manfredi, Mirella; Moersdorf, Lea; Wagner, Lisa; Daum, Moritz M

doi:10.1002/icd.2322

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Reinelt, T., Wermelinger, S., Beck, S., Brehm, J., Helbling, N., Manfredi, M., Moersdorf, L., Wagner, L., & Daum, M. M. (2022). Infancy researchers need to change the way they develop their measures: A comment on Byers‐Heinlein et al. (2021). Infant and Child Development, 31(5), e2322. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2322

Abstract

In their article, Byers-Heinlein et al. (2021) propose six solutions to create more reliable measures for infancy research. Whereas some of their solutions focus on changing the culture in the field (reporting on reliabilities, choosing measures based on psychometrics instead of conventions or face validity, conducting research on psychometrical qualities of measures), other solutions directly relate to the implementation of tasks or data analysis (collecting additional data, exclusion of unreliable trials, more sophisticated analyses