The primary purpose of this study was to obtain estimates of internal consistency reliability, as well as to examine evidence of the construct and criterion validity of the Career Maturity ...Inventory-Revised (CMI-R) in a sample of male and female high school students. Results found modest reliability for the CMI-R. Participants scoring higher in CMI-R attitudes appear ready to make wise and congruent occupational choices. Sex and grade differences showed that females tended to manifest more career mature responses than did males across grade levels. Additional research on item functioning and on the factor structure underlying the inventory is suggested.
Test revisions are increasingly common in psychology and neuropsychology in particular. However, such revisions may alter in complex ways the kind of information obtained, and they may assess traits, ...abilities, and conditions in ways different from earlier versions. This article outlines some of the problems associated with the revision of tests facing clinicians and researchers. Three broad classes of revision are considered. Part 1 considers the aging of tests, part 2 concerns the aging of participants, and part 3 considers changes in test format. Although the article focuses largely on measures of intelligence and personality, the issues addressed in the article apply to other tests and assessment domains as well.
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Development of this special section was inspired in large part by the recent trend in test revision. This special section addresses major issues related to test revision, with attention to both ...research and clinical practice. Many questions arise when revisions in tests are made. Are research findings that are based on outdated versions of a test accepted in the literature? When is a test revision called for? What are the research and clinical implications of continuing to use the original versions of newly revised tests? These are questions facing test users. This special section addresses these questions in two ways: (a) by identifying and critically examining methods of test revision and (b) by reporting practical considerations involved in using revised tests. The first objective of this special section is to examine when a test should be revised and the best methods for doing this. The second objective is to ensure that ethical implications, clinical utility, research standards,and economic aspects are considered and discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
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Test reviews Smith, Arthur E
Journal of counseling psychology,
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1
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Peer reviewed
Discusses the new Otis-Lennon Mental Ability test which provides for consistent testing of general mental ability of students in kindergarten-12th grade. The fundamental theory about intelligence ...remains the same, but nearly all items are revised. Scores can be converted to deviation IQs, percentile ranks, stanines by grades, and to MA equivalents by age. Estimates of reliability using alternate forms and split-half techniques give "assurance that results can be used with reasonable confidence," but further research is suggested "to determine the adequacy of sampling techniques and general usefulness of the test in predicting academic performance."
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Reviews the evaluation by the National Academy of Science (NAS) of the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), which was developed to predict the job performance of potential employees. Proposes that ...the NAS recommendation to correct the GATB's racial bias by "race-norming" was a political decision and not scientifically justified. (FMW)
Adapted the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test to facilitate administration to low-functioning autistic children who do not have a pointing response. Autistic (N=10) and preschool-aged children (N=20) ...were given the standard form and the adapted form. Results supported the use of the published norms for the adapted version. (Author/RC)
Revised sexual behaviors and relationship stages in Reiss Premarital Sexual Permissiveness Scale. Used experimental randomization to examine how standards vary for different targets. Findings from ...237 undergraduates revealed that age, but not gender, of hypothetical person in scale affected responses. Standards were less permissive for adolescents than for young adults. Males had more sexually permissive standards than did females. (Author/NB)
Explored the relationships of the Revised Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT-R), Peabody Individual Achievement Test, and the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities in elementary students. The ...PPVT-R appears to be most appropriate as a brief measure of verbal comprehension, rather than a substitute for the McCarthy scales. (JAC)
