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Two-Stage Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Dentistry

Characteristics

Domains assessed: Prose: Pronunciation
Specific context: Dental Health
Modes of administration in validation study: Face-to-face

Psychometrics

Number of items: 11
Sample size in validation study: 1405
Administration Time (minutes): 1 minutes
Language of validated version: English

Main article reference

Stucky, B.D., Lee, J.Y., Lee, S-Y.D., & Rozier, R.G. (2011). Development of the Two-Stage Rapid Estimate of adult literacy in dentistry. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol, 39: 474–480.

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Corresponding author

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Brian Stucky
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Psychometric Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB 3270 Davie Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America
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Description

Revised, 2-stage dentistry specific word recognition test

Year Measure first Published: 2011

About This Measure

Scoring categories: Possible range: 0-9 (raw score). For interpretation, raw scores are transformed.

About the Validation of this Measure

Country where validated: United States of America
Content validity: This investigation is based on an item response theory analysis of the REALD-30.
Reliability notes: IRT: aΔ=2.91 to 1.09, with mean =2.12 and SD=0.44; b□ =1.97 to -2.93, with mean =0-.02 and SD=1.42
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