Commentary on Psychometric concerns in neuropsychological testing

Commentary on Psychometric concerns in neuropsychological testing.

Dr. Williams raises interesting concerns in his article, however, I feel that the issues he raises extend beyond the scope of test validation, battery selection, test norms, and standardized assessment. The utilization of an assessment measure involves not only the use of that specific measure within a test battery, but also the validation and normative research for that measure. The Standards ...

Psychometric Foundations of Neuropsychological Assessment

Neuropsychological Testing ASSESSMENT: NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING OF ADULTS. CONSIDERATIONS FOR NEUROLOGISTS

This report considers the use of neuropsychological assessment of adults for neurologists, including the appropriate application and limitations of neuropsychological testing, specific disorders where evaluation is pertinent, and issues surrounding neuropsychological consultation to neurologists. The report excludes neuropsychological testing in developmental disorders. The report was assembled...

The fundamental psychometric status of neuropsychological batteries.

A fundamental requirement for neuropsychological assessment is dependability. Neuropsychological knowledge is dependable only if it has been validated using psychometric methods. Since batteries are used for interpretations, the psychometric validation methods that are acceptable for individual tests must be applied to batteries to produce dependable information. While the standardized battery ...

Dynamics of Neuropsychological Testing

How should we analyze repeated trials in neuropsychological testing? It has long been known that experimental subjects display distinct stages of acclimatization and subsequent saturation during cognitive testing (Thurstone, 1927). For example, in list learning tests examining memory, it has been demonstrated that repeated exposure to a fixed enumeration of items can improve recall. However, we...