PURPOSE To review the content and psychometric characteristics of 6 published tests currently available to aid in the study, diagnosis, and treatment of motor speech disorders in children. METHOD We compared the content of the 6 tests and critically evaluated the degree to which important psychometric characteristics support the tests' use for their defined purposes. RESULTS The tests varie...

Robert Plomin* F.M. Spinath Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, Denmark Hill, London, UK SE5 8AF. *e-mail: [email protected] Inter-individual differences in performance on diverse psychometric tests of cognitive abilities – such as verbal, spatial, memory and processing speed – intercorrelate about 0.30 on average an...

The focus of the study is on the assessment of readability for prevailing America and Chinese English textbooks with the measurement software and systems. The result indicated college reading textbooks produced by Chinese publishers seemed to vary in level, with some texts above the reading ability of most college students. Then simplification strategies used to make Chinese EFL reading texts m...

Matrix tests are available for speech recognition testing in many languages. For an accurate measurement, a steep psychometric function of the speech materials is required. For existing tests, it would be beneficial if it were possible to further optimize the available materials by increasing the function's steepness. The objective is to show if the steepness of the psychometric function of an ...

the main purpose of this research was the survey psychometric of mental health and spiritual intelligence tests in student university of shahrbabak city. the statistical universe included all students in a dormitory, amounting to a sample set of 166 people. about 154 people in this group were selected as the sample. in this research, the measuring devices was mental health and spiritual intelli...

The linear mixed model (LMM), which is routinely used to describe change in outcomes over time and its association with risk factors, assumes that a unit change in any predictor is associated with a constant change in the outcome. When it is used on psychometric tests, this assumption may not hold. Indeed, psychometric tests usually suffer from ceiling and/or floor effects and curvilinearity (i...

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...

The objective was to compare two neurophysiological variables in active amateur boxers with non-boxing sportsmen. 41 boxers and 27 controls were given psychometric tests: 34 boxers and 34 controls underwent technetium-99m hexamethylpropyleneamineoxime single photon emission computerised tomography (Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT) cerebral perfusion scans. The controls performed better at most aspects of th...