PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe the psychometric properties, clinical significance, and utility of the Total Neuropathy Score (TNS), a composite measurement tool used to assess chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN). DATA SOURCES Published articles and abstracts and pertinent article references. DATA SYNTHESIS CIPN has been quantified inadequately because of the lack of an optimal...

Derived from the psychometric tradition of creativity research, divergent thinking (DT) tests are the major instrument for measuring people’s creative potential. Although still prevalent, DT testing has received substantial criticism of its validity and practical value. This article focuses on the issue of how to reliably and validly assess and predict people’s real-world creative potential. Ba...

This study examined the influence of veterans' race and examiners' use of psychometric testing during a Department of Veterans Affairs posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) disability examination on diagnostic and service connection status outcomes. Participants were 764 veterans enrolled in a national longitudinal registry. Current and lifetime PTSD diagnostic status was determined with the Str...

Adaptive item generation may be the next innovation in intelligence testing. In adaptive item generation, the optimally informative item is developed anew for the examinee during the test. Reminiscent of computer versus person chess games, the computer generates the next item based on the previous pattern of the examinee's responses. Adaptive item generation requires the merger of two lines of ...

This paper presents a preliminary study of using psychometric tests when testing input devices with older people. An experiment with twelve older computer users evaluating three commonly used input devices (mouse, touch screen and tablet-with-stylus) in two common computer tasks (browsing and playing solitaire), preceded by a questionnaire and psychometric tests (Simple Reaction Time, Mini Ment...

A psychometric function describes the relation between some physical measure of a stimulus and the probability of a particular psychophysical response. The physical measure is usually stimulus strength, and the response is "yes" (in a yes/no experiment) or "correct" (in a forced-choice experiment). More generally, there are several possible responses, each with its own psychometric function (e....