Tests are updated and revised periodically in order to remain current, valid and reliable in a competitive psychological testing industry. Despite the prevalence of test revisions, especially in ...recent years, a number of authors have commented on the lack of comprehensive guidelines for test revision. Whilst some guideline documents from test associations have mentioned test revision, these guidelines tend to be focussed on test user responsibility, with limited guidance for practitioners embarking on a test revision project. Test revision is expensive and time consuming, leaving little scope for experimentation or trial-and-error. Test revision deserves a comprehensive document that addresses aspects such as what the different types of revision are, when to embark on a revision, what process to follow and how test users should use revised tests. The current study developed a comprehensive and practical set of 23 guidelines across ten phases of a revision project to assist revision teams, test users and publishers. These guidelines were peer-reviewed and refined.
Psychosocial resources can enhance positive experiences and reduce negative experiences in family caregivers. This study aimed to develop scales for measuring the utilization of resources related to ...well-being and coping with daily hassles adapted for family caregivers. It aimed to examine their psychometric properties with a German sample of 445 informal caregivers. Factorial analyses, reliability, and validity tests yielded the scales “Utilization of resources related to well-being” and “Self-encouragement and acceptance.” These showed divergent validity to scales focusing on care-recipients’ cognitive and functional impairment and sufficient convergent validity to scales measuring physical health complaints, caregiver burden, and depression. The scales represent economic measures suitable for both preventive and interventional studies. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract)
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Objective: Neuropsychological tests undergo periodic revision intended to improve psychometric properties, normative data, relevance of stimuli, and ease of administration. In addition, new tests are ...developed to evaluate psychological and neuropsychological constructs, often purporting to improve evaluation effectiveness. However, there is limited professional guidance to neuropsychologists concerning the decision to adopt a revised version of a test and/or replace an older test with a new test purporting to measure the same or overlapping constructs. This paper describes ethical and professional issues related to the selection and use of older versus newer psychological and neuropsychological tests, with the goal of promoting appropriate test selection and evidence-based decision making. Method: Ethical and professional issues were reviewed and considered. Conclusions: The availability of a newer version of a test does not necessarily render obsolete prior versions of the test for purposes that are empirically supported, nor should continued empirically supported use of a prior version of a test be considered unethical practice. Until a revised or new test has published evidence of improved ability to help clinicians to make diagnostic determinations, facilitate treatment, and/or assess change over time, the choice to delay adoption of revised or new tests may be viewed as reasonable and appropriate. Recommendations are offered to facilitate decisions about the adoption of revised and new tests. Ultimately, it is the responsibility of individual neuropsychologists to determine which tests best meet their patients' needs, and to be able to support their decisions with empirical evidence and sound clinical judgment.
When a test is revised, it is important that test users are made aware of the comparability of scores of the new and the original test. We examined how scores on the Test of Gross Motor ...Development–Second Edition (TGMD-2) and Test of Gross Motor Development–Third Edition (TGMD-3) compared among children in middle childhood. Participants were 270 children recruited in grade 3 (54% female;
M
age
= 8 years 6 months) and followed through grade 5. Participants completed the skills of both tests. Subtest scores were converted into percent of maximum possible (POMP) scores to facilitate comparison. Although similar, uniformly the TGMD-3 POMP scores were slightly lower. Repeated measures analyses of variance revealed that locomotor subtest scores derived from both tests improved from grade 3 to grade 5, as did TGMD-3 assessed ball skills. However, there was no difference in TGMD-2 assessed object control skills over time. It appears that under-contribution by the underhand roll suppressed the trajectory of improvement of TGMD-2 assessed object control skills. This finding supports the exclusion of the roll from the TGMD-3. The consistent pattern of sex-based differences in TGMD-2 object control skill and TGMD-3 ball skills reinforces the need for male and female norm-reference data for ball skills.
The NEO Personality Inventory-3 (NEO-PI-3) is a modification of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) designed to be more understandable to adolescents. Data from adults aged 21 to 91 ...showed that the NEO-PI-3 also functions as well or better than the NEO-PI-R in adults. Age trends from combined adolescent (n = 500) and adult (n = 635) samples confirmed previous cross-sectional findings and demonstrated the importance of studying age changes especially at the facet level and during the decade of the 20s. Normative data for self-report and observer rating forms for adolescents, younger and older adults, and all adults are discussed, as well as for a combined-age group. It is argued that combined-age norms may be most appropriate for depicting the personality scores of individuals, but the utility for some purposes of within-age group scores is also acknowledged.
This study investigates teachers' assessment practices across teaching levels and content areas, as well as teachers' self-perceived assessment skills as a function of teaching experience and ...measurement training. Data from 297 teachers on the Assessment Practices Inventory were analyzed in a MANOVA design. As grade level increases, teachers rely more on objective tests in classroom assessment and show an increased concern for assessment quality (p < .001). Across content areas, teachers' involvement in assessment activities reflects the nature and importance of the subjects they teach (p < .001). Regardless of teaching experience, teachers with measurement training report a higher level of self-perceived assessment skills in using performance measures; in standardized testing, test revision, and instructional improvement; as well as in communicating assessment results (p < .05) than those without measurement training. The implications of the results for measurement training are also discussed.
While the number of elderly men and women continues to grow, an accurate assessment of attitudes toward the elderly remains difficult. Many problems exist that contribute to this difficulty of ...assessment. The first problem is the age of the Aging Semantic Differential, an instrument often used for the assessment of attitudes toward the elderly. The adjectives employed are not necessarily descriptive of attitudes today. Another problem was the failure to employ women as attitudinal objects as well as men in the original instrument. Therefore, the Aging Semantic Differential is perhaps outdated for such assessments of attitudes toward today's elderly population. The purpose of this study was to refine the Aging Semantic Differential for the purpose of more accurately assessing current attitudes toward older people in general by generating a more up-to-date list of adjectives. Possible differences in attitude toward men and women were assessed in order to establish a refined list of adjectives for use on the generalized elderly population. Three hundred undergraduate students (136 men, 164 women) evaluated men and women 70-85 years of age. The results of the factor analyses revealed strong similarities in item composition on four factors of the factor structures for old men and old women; however, the orders of the loadings were different on each of the four factors. The final list of adjectives has Cronbach alphas of .9737 and .9713, and test-retest reliabilities of .8127 and .7938 for the old men and the old women, respectively. Recommendations are made on the use of the updated list of adjectives, as well as for methodological and conceptual considerations for future research. Also, future research is called for to determine attitudes toward the elderly rather than to debate the number of factors necessary to explain the attitude concept, as has been done in a majority of studies concerning attitudes toward the elderly.
Previous research has identified 2 broad components of distress in intimate relationships: overt conflict, or
disharmony
, and emotional distance, or
disaffection
. Using confirmatory factor ...analysis, the authors derived 2 broadband scales of disharmony and disaffection from the Marital Satisfaction Inventory-Revised (
D. K. Snyder, 1997
), building upon previous measures of these constructs (
D. K. Snyder & Regts, 1982
) derived from the original instrument. The new scales demonstrated high internal consistency and test-retest reliability, as well as discriminative validity and convergent validity with independent criteria of relationship functioning. Distinct distributions of these scales in community and clinical samples suggested their complementary role in research on intimate relationships and assessment of couples in treatment.
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"The Bender-Gestalt II": Erratum Sluzki, Carlos E.; Russo, Nancy Felipe
American journal of orthopsychiatry,
10/2006, Volume:
76, Issue:
4
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Reports an error in "The Bender-Gestalt II" by Gary G. Brannigan and Scott L. Decker ( American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 2006Jan, Vol 761, 10-12). An introduction should have accompanied the ...article. This Introduction appears in the Publications Section of the Ortho website, http://www.amerortho.org. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2006-03377-002.) In 2003, the Bender-Gestalt II was published. In the present article, the revision process is described, and major changes to the test are discussed. These changes include additional designs, a memory (recall) phase, Motor and Perception supplementary tests, a detailed observation form, a global scoring system, and a large, nationally representative normative base. Directions for future research are also provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
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The authors describe the psychometric development of the fourth revision of the Interview for Diagnosis of Eating Disorders (IDED-IV). The IDED-IV was tested for the purpose of differential diagnosis ...of eating disorders, that is, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. Evidence for internal consistency was found for symptom ratings relevant to anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. Support was found for the content validity as well as the concurrent and discriminant validity of the IDED-IV. Finally, tests of the interrater agreement for differential diagnosis of eating disorders found the IDED-IV to yield very reliable data. The authors conclude that the IDED-IV yields sufficiently reliable and valid data to be used for determining diagnoses in research studies and clinics specializing in the treatment of eating disorders.
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