Assessing competencies of students with special educational needs in learning (SEN-L) poses a challenge for large-scale assessments (LSAs). For students with SEN-L, the available competence tests may fail to yield test scores of high psychometric quality, which are-at the same time-measurement invariant to test scores of general education students. We investigated whether we can identify a subg...

A battery of psychometric tests was administered to 85 patients with epilepsy, of whom 26 were untreated, 40 received carbamazepine monotherapy and 19 took carbamazepine with another anticonvulsant. Carbamazepine alone had little effect on performance, but carbamazepine polypharmacy produced significant impairment. Increasing concentrations of carbamazepine (four tests) and its active metabolit...

background: identification of children with specific language impairment (sli) has been viewed as both necessity and challenge. investigators and clinicians use different tests and measures for this purpose. some of these tests/measures have good psychometric properties, but it is not sufficient for diagnostic purposes. a diagnostic procedure can be used for identification a specific population...

It has recently been pointed out by several authors that the psychometric assessment of the elderly patient has largely been geared to, or preoccupied with, the solution of diagnostic problems, measuring deterioration or discover ing early dementia (Post, 1966; Inglis, :962). Therefore, it appears that little attention has been paid to the use of psychometric tests in the broad area of prognosi...

Article history: Received 20 March 2009 Received in revised form 7 May 2009 Accepted 2 June 2009 Available online 26 June 2009 According to the temporal resolution power (TRP) hypothesis, higher TRP as reflected by better performance on psychophysical timing tasks accounts for faster speed of information processing and increased efficiency of information processing leading to better performance...

A 20 year old female pedophile exhibiting multiple paraphilias and who had been both a victim of incest and an active participant, undertook extensive clinical, psychometric, endocrine and laboratory sexual arousal studies. Her psychiatric, psychometric and physiologic arousal profiles showed similarities to those of a sizable proportion of male child molesters, especially incestors. It is sugg...

After a brief review of recent advances in sequential analysis involving sequential generalized likelihood ratio tests, we discuss their use in psychometric testing and extend the asymptotic optimality theory of these sequential tests to the case of sequentially generated experiments, of particular interest in computerized adaptive testing. We then show how these methods can be used to design a...

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 ...