Abstract
The Environmental Assessment Index was developed to assess the educational/developmental quality of home environments of 3-year-old through 11-year-old children. The long form of Index is composed of 44 home observation and/or maternal interview items. The short form consists of 24 of the 44 items. The Index has been used to assess the quality of 62 rural children's homes in a three-year longitudinal study of ecological influences on rural children's mental and social development. The long form had a Cronbach alpha reliability of .74 and concurrent and predictive validity correlations with IQ estimates of +.66 and +.61 (p <.01) for preschool children. The two-year test-retest correlation was .81 (p <.001). The short form had a Cronbach alpha reliability of .82 and concurrent and predictive validity correlations with IQ estimates of +.64 and +.66 (p <.01). The short form test-retest correlation was .86 (p < .001). The scale items are included.
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