Practitioner's Guide to Evaluating Change with Intellectual Assessment Instruments

ISBN-13: 9780306464164 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 280 str.

Robert J. McCaffrey; Kevin Duff; Holly James Westervelt

Opis

While conducting research on intellectual and neuropsychological perfonnance of various patient populations across time, we became aware of the lack of information concerning practice effects associated with many widely used assessment instruments. Although test-retest data were available for almost all of these instruments, it typically came in the form of correlation coefficients and mean changes in performance between assessments was often absent. In a 1995 article (McCaffrey & Westervelt, 1995), we discussed a number of issues relevant to serial neuropsychological and intellectual assessment and concluded that clinical neuropsychological practitioners had few guidelines to assist them in interpreting change in a patient's performance across assessments. This volume represents our efforts at reviewing the literature between 1970 and 1998 and extracting the reported information on practice effects. The tables include the assessment instrument used, information on the subject/patient groups, the sample size fu}, gender, age, intervention, interval between the assessments, scores at both assessment points, and the citation. The tables reflect the existing published literature within intellectual assessment and, therefore, some instruments (e.g., Wechsler tests) comprise a majority of the tables whereas others (e.g., Raven's Progressive Matrices, Stanford-Binet) do not. The test index is arranged by the name of the test as reported in the specific article. We caution readers to refer to the original articles if additional or more specific information is needed.

Spis treści

Preface. I: Introduction. A. Brief Overview of the History of Intelligence Tests. B. Use of Intelligence Tests in Neuropsychological Evaluations. 1: The Concept of Intelligence in Neuropsychology. 2: Utility of Overall IQ Scores. 3: Profile Interpretation and the Use of Intelligence Tests as Neuropsychological Instruments. 4: The WAIS-III as a Neuropsychological Instruments. C. Reliability. D. Regression to the Mean. E. Practice Effects. 1: Controlling Practice Effects. a. Statistical Procedures. b. Methodological Procedures. F. Person-Specific Variables. 1: Age. 2: Gender. 3: Intelligence. 4: Education. 5: Disease Process. G. The Comparability of Intellectual Assessment Instruments. II: Tables. A. Abbreviations. B. Tables. 1: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (-Revised, -III). 2: Wechsler Bellevue Intelligence Scale. 3: Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (-Revised, III). 4: Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence. 5: North American Reading Test. 6: Raven's Progressive Matrices. 7: Shipley Hartford Institute of Living Scale. 8: Stanford Binet. III: References. IV: Index.

O autorze

Dr. Robert McCaffrey is a Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York in Albany. He is a leading figure in the neuropsychology community, a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Neuropsychology and the American Board of Professional Disability Consultants. He is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Neuropsychology and the American College of Professional Neuropsychology. In 2006 he will assume editorship of the journal Neuropsychology Review.