AUTHOR=Lúcio Patrícia S. , Salum Giovanni , Swardfager Walter , Mari Jair de Jesus , Pan Pedro M. , Bressan Rodrigo A. , Gadelha Ary , Rohde Luis A. , Cogo-Moreira Hugo TITLE=Testing Measurement Invariance across Groups of Children with and without Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder: Applications for Word Recognition and Spelling Tasks JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=8 YEAR=2017 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01891 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01891 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
Although studies have consistently demonstrated that children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) perform significantly lower than controls on word recognition and spelling tests, such studies rely on the assumption that those groups are comparable in these measures. This study investigates comparability of word recognition and spelling tests based on diagnostic status for ADHD through measurement invariance methods. The participants (