The purpose of this study is to evaluate the internal scale validity, person response validity, and reliability of the newly developed Assessment of Computer-Related Skills (ACRS). Data from 32 healthy adult participants who performed two to three computer tasks were analysed to determine how well the participants fitted the many-faceted Rasch (MFR) model of the ACRS, as well as how well the AC...

The purpose of the study was to develop a valid and reliable tool for use in assessing motor skills in preschool children in field based settings. The development of the CHAMPS (Children’s Activity and Movement in Preschool Study) Motor Skills Protocol (CMSP) included evidence of its reliability and validity for use in field-based environments as part of large epidemiological studies. Following...

Four studies investigated the reliability and validity of thin slices of nonverbal behavior from social interactions including (a) how well individual slices of a given behavior predict other slices in the same interaction; (b) how well a slice of a given behavior represents the entirety of that behavior within an interaction; (c) how long a slice is necessary to sufficiently represent the enti...

Wisdom is a field of growing interest both inside and outside academic psychology, and researchers are increasingly interested in using measures of wisdom in their work. However, wisdom is a highly complex construct, and its various operationalizations are based on quite different definitions. Which measure a researcher chooses for a particular research project may have a strong influence on th...

INTRODUCTION The incidence and prevalence of mental problems among older people are difficult to map because the causes are often complex and the symptoms manifest in a range of ways. Therefore, there is a need for robust and useful instruments for screening mental problems in this group. One instrument used in Norway and around the world is the 30-item version of the General Health Questionnai...

INTRODUCTION Audiology students should possess clinical competence and skills. To achieve this, their clinical skills must be properly assessed. The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is a standard and fair examination of clinical competence. The goal of this study is to devise a checklist of OSCE examination criteria and study their validity and reliability for assessing the clin...

INTRODUCTION Neuropsychological functioning connects neuropathology and symptoms in schizophrenia. Previous work suggests that deficient initiation and inhibition underlie the psychomotor poverty and disorganisation syndromes, respectively. Furthermore, although the syndromes are associated with impairments in everyday functioning, cognitive competency (CC; cognitive skills for independent livi...

In this issue of Family Medicine, Drs Turner and Dankoski1 raise questions about the reliability and validity of objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs). They propose that many institutions may be using an OSCE that does not have adequate reliability, and their interpretation of the literature is that the validity of OSCEs has not been established. I agree with their conclusions. The...

The importance of treatment of cognitive impairments of people with schizophrenia has long been established. Among many pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical approaches, cognitive remediation offers one of the best promises for the rehabilitation of cognitive impairments of schizophrenia. The purpose of this paper is to introduce one such approach, the Neuropsychological Educational Approach to...

Helping people with schizophrenia to gain competitive employment is a key to improving their quality of life and facilitating their recovery.1 Through a combination of individual placement and support, work-related social skills training, and cognitive remediation training (CRT), our earlier studies demonstrated that 78.8% of people with severe mental illness succeeded in getting competitive em...