The Psychometric Properties of the Arabic Preschool Activity Card Sort.
Somaya H Malkawi, Sana M N Abu-Dahab, Ahmad F Amro and 1 others
PMID 29097968WHAT IT FOUND
The Arabic Preschool Activity Card Sort gave stable scores over 2 weeks and described preschool participation across several daily domains.
Its links to adaptive behavior were mostly modest. Use it to ask what children do, not to prove skill.
Key findings
01In a randomly selected subsample of 30 parents, A-PACS scores were stable when repeated after 2 weeks, with an ICC of .976.
02The 98-item A-PACS score had excellent internal consistency, with α = .859.
03Several A-PACS domains correlated significantly with Vineland domains, including communication (r = 0.629), social (r = 0.577), and motor (r = .692), but self-care and high demand leisure did not correlate significantly with any Vineland domain.
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What it does not show
Only parents of typically developing children were included, so the results do not show how the A-PACS works for children with disabilities. The authors called the sample small and said results should be interpreted with caution. Test-retest stability came from only 30 parents. The study did not test whether the A-PACS is sensitive to change over time. Concurrent validity with Vineland was mostly fair, and self-care and high demand leisure did not correlate significantly with Vineland domains. The paper says the Arabic adaptation yielded 95 activities but later analyses 98 items, so the item count is unclear. Participation was reported by parents rather than observed.
The easy way to misread this
Do not use the A-PACS to judge whether a child with a disability has a participation problem. It was tested only in typically developing Arabic-speaking preschool children, and the authors say validity for children with disabilities still needs study.