Inter-rater agreement of the news areas, literacy and numeracy of the AEPS/EIS
This article presents the degree of interjudge reliability between two raters in regard to the new literacy and numeracy domains found in the Programme EIS Évaluation Intervention Suivi, which is the French traduction of the Assessment, Evaluation, and Programming System (AEPS). For several years now, actors working alongside children with disabilities have been unsatisfied with conventional tests evaluating the child’s development due to the rigid nature of the administrative protocols and the inconsistency of the assessment exercises when comparing them to the natural behavior of the child, two issues that are remedied with the AEPS. This tool for the assessment of the development of the child aims to introduce the domains of literacy and numeracy to its latest edition. The research questions tackled in the study are concerned with the interjudge reliability between two raters tasked with evaluating both domains as well as the objectives that constitute them. The sample is composed of 32 children who have been evaluated in their natural living environment. The results show an excellent interjudge reliability for literacy and a substantial one for numeracy. In conclusion, as far as their fidelity is concerned, the new domains present some interesting psychometric qualities. While this study contributes to the elaboration process surrounding AEPS’s domains of literacy and numeracy, more studies are required in order to further validate the new edition of the program, as a whole.