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Psychometric Properties of Rapid Word-Based Rate Measures in the Assessment of Bulbar Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Comparisons with Syllable-Based Rate Tasks
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Shellikeri, Sanjana; Marzouqah, Reeman; Brooks, Benjamin Rix; Zinman, Lorne; Green, Jordan R.; Yunusova, Yana – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Rapid maximum performance repetition tasks have increasingly demonstrated their utility as clinimetric markers supporting diagnosis and monitoring of bulbar disease in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). A recently developed protocol uses novel real-word repetitions instead of traditional nonword/syllable sequences in hopes of improving…
Descriptors: Diseases, Task Analysis, Clinical Diagnosis, Brain Hemisphere Functions
Comparison of the MMPI-2 Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5), the NEO-PI, and the NEO-PI-R.
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Trull, Timothy J.; And Others – Psychological Assessment, 1995
Relations between the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Psychopathology Five (PSY-5), and the Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Openness Personality Inventory (NEO-PI) and its revision (NEO-PI-R) were studied for 170 community adults and 57 clinical patients. Correlations between the instruments showed meaningful relations between the two…
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Construct Validity, Extraversion Introversion
The Construct Validity of the Hooper Visual Organization Test.
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Johnstone, Brick; Wilhelm, Karen L. – Assessment, 1997
The construct validity of the Hooper Visual Organization Test (VOT) (H. Hooper, 1983) was studied by comparing it to conceptually similar and dissimilar cognitive abilities in a principal components analysis of results from 240 participants with cognitive impairment. Results suggest that the VOT is best considered a measure of visual-spatial…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Tests, Comparative Analysis, Construct Validity
A Comparison of Second- and Fourth-Year Medical Students on a Standardized-Patient Examination of Clinical Competence: A Construct Validity Study.
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Barnhart, Amber J.; And Others – 1991
The construct validity of the standardized-patient (SP) examination used at Southern Illinois University (Springfield) School of Medicine was assessed by comparing 66 second-year and 70 fourth-year medical students on 5 SP cases. The results show sizable differences between the groups. The usefulness of passing rates the effect-size measures as a…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Comparative Analysis, Competence, Construct Validity
Incremental Validity Analyses of the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide and the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version in a Civil Psychiatric Sample
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Edens, John F.; Skeem, Jennifer L.; Douglas, Kevin S. – Assessment, 2006
This study compares two instruments frequently used to assess risk for violence, the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG) and the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV), in a large sample of civil psychiatric patients. Despite a strong bivariate relationship with community violence, the VRAG could not improve on the predictive validity…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Violence, At Risk Persons, Check Lists