Online Testing Yields the Same Results as Lab Testing: A Validation Study With the False Belief Task.

ABSTRACT: Recently, online testing has become an increasingly important instrument in developmental research, in particular since the COVID-19 pandemic made in-lab testing impossible. However, online testing comes with two substantial challenges. First, it is unclear how valid results of online studies really are. Second, implementing online studies can be costly and/or require profound coding skills. This article addresses the validity of an online testing approach that is low-cost and easy to implement: The experimenter shares test materials such as videos or presentations via video chat and interactively moderates the test session. To validate this approach, we compared children's performance on a well-established task, the change-of-location false belief task, in an in-lab and online test settin

SUBMITTER: Schidelko LP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8548716 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature