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Peltonen, Kirsi; Kurki, Marjo; Reedtz, Charlotte; Kaiser, Sabine; Rasmussen, Lene-Mari P.; Merikukka, Marko; Rye, Marte; Laajasalo, Taina; Kyrrestad, Henriette; Karjalainen, Piia; Pettersen, Susann Dahl; Eng, Helene; Breivik, Kyrre; Martinussen, Monica – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
The aim of this article is to review the psychometric properties of the psychological tests that are being used in the Nordic countries during pregnancy and the child's first two years of life. A systematic literature search was performed for 33 identified tests routinely used in health care, using specific review databases as well as PsycInfo,…
Descriptors: Parents, Pregnancy, Psychological Testing, Toddlers
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Evers, Arne; McCormick, Carina M.; Hawley, Leslie R.; Muñiz, José; Balboni, Giulia; Bartram, Dave; Boben, Dusica; Egeland, Jens; El-Hassan, Karma; Fernández-Hermida, José R.; Fine, Saul; Frans, Örjan; Gintiliené, Grazina; Hagemeister, Carmen; Halama, Peter; Iliescu, Dragos; Jaworowska, Aleksandra; Jiménez, Paul; Manthouli, Marina; Matesic, Krunoslav; Michaelsen, Lars; Mogaji, Andrew; Morley-Kirk, James; Rózsa, Sándor; Rowlands, Lorraine; Schittekatte, Mark; Sümer, H. Canan; Suwartono, Tono; Urbánek, Tomáš; Wechsler, Solange; Zelenevska, Tamara; Zanev, Svetoslav; Zhang, Jianxin – International Journal of Testing, 2017
On behalf of the International Test Commission and the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations a world-wide survey on the opinions of professional psychologists on testing practices was carried out. The main objective of this study was to collect data for a better understanding of the state of psychological testing worldwide. These data…
Descriptors: Testing, Attitudes, Surveys, Psychologists
Smith, Gudmund J. W.; Danielsson, Anna – 1977
A serial visual afterimage (AI) test was administered to 136 normal and 75 anxiety-ridden children 4-16 years of age. The scoring of the AI serials involved signs of primitive functioning (size-constant and positive AIs), anxiety (large and dark AIs together with primitive AIs in older children) and process discontinuity (intermittent regressions…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anxiety, Children, Clinical Diagnosis
Smith, Gudmund J. W.; Danielsson, Anna – 1977
The Meta-Contrast Technique (MCT) was used to project, at the concrete perceptual level afforded by the test, two of the dilemmas confronting anxiety-ridden children: the threat against their uncertain sense of identity (revealed as fusion between the threat and the hero in the test) and the insufficiency of their defensive resources (revealed as…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anxiety, Children, Foreign Countries
Smith, Gudmund J. W.; Danielsson, Anna – 1977
The Meta-Contrast Technique (MCT) was used for a differential diagnosis of anxiety-ridden children aged 4-16 years. Signs of open fright in the test situation showed the greatest correlation with symptoms of paroxysmal anxiety (in older children). Other severe signs of anxiety were fusion between the hero and the threat, leaking defense…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anxiety, Children, Clinical Diagnosis
Smith, Gudmund J. W.; Danielsson, Anna – 1977
An attempt to operationally define depressive retardation in 72 inpatients aged 4-16 used two percept-genetic tests. In a serial visual afterimage (AI) test retardation was defined as a successive reduction of AI size, and in a serial tachistoscopic presentation using the meta-contrast technique (MCT) it was seen as stereotyped repetitions of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anxiety, Children, Clinical Diagnosis
Oskarsson, Mats – 1975
A large-scale test development project at the Language Teaching Research Center of the University of Gothenburg aims to develop tests in English as a foreign language for use in various areas of business and public administration. After testing, certificates stating current proficiency level in each of the four language skills (listening, reading,…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, English (Second Language), Individual Characteristics, Intelligence
Goldstein, Ellen R. – 1970
This extensively annotated bibliography supplements an article by Zana Stein and Mervyn Susser entitled "Mutability of Intelligence and Epidemiology of Mild Mental Retardation," appearing in "Review of Educational Research," Volume 40, Number 1, February 1970, pages 29-67. Resource materials listed focus on: the fate of…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Black Achievement, Cognitive Development, Disease Control