The International Mental Health Assessment (IMHA) was developed to provide efficient screening facilitate prevention and early intervention among employees or community adults at three levels of analysis: a P-factor general functioning tendency toward disorder; broad spectra internalizing externalizing tendencies for life difficulties; nine subscales common, familiar psychological behavioral he...

Undergraduate computer science students need to learn analytical reasoning skills to develop high quality software and to understand why the software they develop works as specified. This paper describes a systematic process for introducing reasoning skills into the curriculum and assessing how well the students have learned those skills. It presents a comprehensive Reasoning Concept Inventory ...

BACKGROUND Eating disorders are complex disorders that involve medical and psychological symptoms. Understanding the psychological factors associated with different eating disorders is important for assessment, diagnosis, and treatment. METHODS This study sought to determine on which of the 22 Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) scales patients with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and e...

The authors examined the validity of the Cambridge Behavioral Inventory (CBI), a questionnaire investigating broad neuropsychiatric symptoms and everyday functional ability in dementia. Test-retest reliability of the CBI was acceptable. Cross-validation with the Neuropsychiatric Inventory showed good concurrent validity of the CBI. The CBI reliably demonstrated that disinhibition, stereotypic b...

It is well known that Bipolar Disorder is a condition which is often under diagnosed or misdiagnosed. We propose an inventory of questions which will help assess the longitutinal history of the patient's illness, and to evaluate the presence of mixed affective states, rapid cycling, and comorbidities, all of which have an important bearing on prognosis.

This study examined the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) in 95 individuals who had suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Participants were recruited from a rehabilitation hospital (n=60) and a military hospital (n=35); despite differences in demographics and injury characteristics groups did not differ on any of the clinical scales and were thus combined. In the combined group, the hig...

Electric Circuits course is a core component of undergraduate curricula in electrical engineering programs worldwide. The Electric Circuits Concept Inventory (ECCI) is a set of multiple-choice questions that we are developing to measure students’ understanding of fundamental concepts such as DC and AC Circuits. First and Second-order circuits, etc. and Advanced Circuit analysis topics are cover...

The need for a simply applied quantitative assessment of handedness is discussed and some previous forms reviewed. An inventory of 20 items with a set of instructions and responseand computational-conventions is proposed and the results obtained from a young adult population numbering some 1100 individuals are reported. The separate items are examined from the point of view of sex, cultural and...

To assess the validity and clinical utility of the marital inventory ENRICH, a discriminant validity study was conducted using a national sample of 5039 married couples. The sample was randomly split in order to form a cross-validation group. ENRICH is a multidimensional scale and two types of analysis were conducted to assess the value of these various scales. Results from discriminant analysi...