While the reliability and validity of Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology (IDS) scores have been established with outpatient adults being treated in community psychiatric clinics, it has not been used in special or dually diagnosed populations. Establishes internal consistency, concurrent validity, and construct validity for both the clinical…

Usable data from 214 of 227 college students who completed the Career Factors Inventory (CFI), Career Choice Status Inventory, Vocational Identity Scale, and Career Development Inventory demonstrated the CFI's construct validity through correlations with age and years in school. Concurrent validity was supported by correlations with career…

Investigated factor structure of the Stanford-Binet Fourth Edition using collaboration matrix from the standardization sample of 1,695 children aged 2 through 6 years, 1,586 children aged 7 through 11 years, and 1,728 participants aged 12 through 23 years. The results revealed the large first factor that resembled general intelligence, with little…

Elder abuse is recognized as an under-detected and under-reported social problem. Difficulties in detecting elder abuse are compounded by the lack of a standardized, psychometrically valid instrument for case finding. The development of the Hwalek-Sengstock Elder Abuse Screening Test (H-S/EAST) followed a larger effort to identify indicators and…

The Multidimensional Stimulus Fluency Measure (MSFM) and the Thinking Creatively in Action and Movement (TCAM) instrument, both designed to assess ideational fluency through different response modes (verbal and nonverbal), were administered to 24 middle-class preschool children. Concurrent and construct validity were established for these two…

Conducted factor analytic investigation of Counselor Rating Form, Counselor Rating Form-Short Form, and Counselor Effectiveness Rating Scale (CERS) using data from 160 undergraduate students. Analysis revealed two oblique factors (expertness and attractiveness-trustworthiness), whereas CERS produced single, global evaluative factor. Oblique…

Predictive validity of Education Participation Scale Alternative form was demonstrated by relating interview data and estimates to actual scores. Responses from 845 North American and Asian adults entered into discriminant function equations successfully classified 60 percent by gender, 25 percent by age, and 65 percent by ethnicity. Soundness of…

Reviews recently published methods of assessment of dynamic formulations derived from psychodynamic case material, particularly those that emphasize central maladaptive interpersonal patterns. The methods are divided into those based on case studies and those with a moderate sample size. Psychometric properties are reviewed. The question of how…

New developments for solving the validation problem are applied to measuring and validating spatial modifiability. Results from 582 Air Force recruits support construct and criterion-related validities for the cognitive modifiability of spatial visualization items. Results also support modifiability as a direct measurement of learning ability.…

The reliability and validity of E. D. Hirsch's (1988) Cultural Literacy Test (CLT) was studied with 150 first-year college students at the University of St. Thomas in Houston (Texas). The test appears reliable, with a split-half reliability estimate of 0.93, and the cultural literacy construct and the CLT are valid. (SLD)

Examined validity of Career Decision-Making System (CDM) by administering CDM to English- and Spanish-speaking subjects in the United States, English- and French-speaking subjects in Canada, and English-speaking subjects in Australia. Results suggest that translation from English to another language or use with persons of another nationality does…

Data from 104 school children were analyzed to determine the psychometric and conceptual soundness of the Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test (UNIT), devised for children with limited English language proficiency. Examines test validity through construct validity, confirmatory factor analysis, and exploratory factor analysis in comparison with…

The feasibility of employing survey data that uses the states of the United States as the societal units in macro-level sociological research was studied. The range of issues available for research opened to investigation would be greatly expanded if it were possible to aggregate national survey data to produce state-level statistics for variables…

The usefulness and validity of the 3 versions (Infant-Toddler, Early Childhood, and Middle Childhood) of the HOME Inventory were studied with 261 children with cognitive, hearing, vision, or orthopedic handicaps. The Inventory in its original form and a modified form was subjected to analysis of reliability, construct validity, and criterion…

Fifty-seven primary-level students completed the Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitude-Primary: Second Edition (DTLA-P:2) and the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery, Part I and II. A strong relationship between the two provides evidence for the criterion-related and construct validity of the DTLA-P:2 test scores. (Author/JDD)