Purpose: To review the content and psychometric characteristics of 6 published tests currently available to aid in the study, diagnosis, and treatment of motor speech disorders in children. Method: We compared the content of the 6 tests and critically evaluated the degree to which important psychometric characteristics support the tests' use for…

In this article, the author reviews the Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales (RIAS), an individually administered test of intelligence appropriate for ages 3 through 94 years with a conormed, supplemental measure of memory. The RIAS should be administered by examiners who have formal training in assessment. In this regard, the RIAS is a…

How to describe the Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) Placement Tests to the non-IPI community; how to assess student performance over a period of time, and what information can be obtained relative to the IPI curriculum: such are the concerns of this study. A possible solution to the first problem is to describe the IPI Placement Test…

Correction for attenuation is important for partial correlations because not even the sign of the partial between true scores can be inferred safely from the partial between observed (fallible) scores. Methods for inferring the corrected partial are discussed. Unfortunately, the corrected partial will sometimes have an overwhelming sampling error.…

Relationships between the Rasch test analysis model, the law of comparative judgment, and additive conjoint measurement are discussed. (Author/JKS)

Provides data from over 2,000 Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventories on the nature of differences on number of elevated scales and in 2- and 3-point code types that occur when norms developed by Colligan et al. are applied. Demonstrates that no one-to-one correspondence exists between results of original norms and results of Colligan's new…

This paper is an historical and critical evaluation of the view that test interpretations can be based on constructs, as constructs are currently conceptualized. The nomological network reconstruction of scientific theorizing is discussed. (MT)

Examined the interpretation of measures of moral development to individuals from three phases of test interpretation. Interpretations based on the meaning of the scale, the meaning of the score, and specific meaning to the individual are explored. (Author)

Examined the detection of faking good and faking bad on the Personality Inventory for Children-Revised with an outpatient mental health clinic population. Results show that faking influences all 12 clinical scales and the four broad-band scales. Detection of faking good is recommended by the use of the Lie scale and the Adjustment scale.…

Addresses the question of abnormality when comparing a subject's score on each subtest with that subject's average subtest score on one of Weschler's scales. Suggests comparing each subtest score with the Verbal or Performance average rather than with the overall average. Provides tables estimating differences of standardization samples. (BH)

Critiques Knapp's (1980) article on change scores in counseling research and points out the need for actual empirical studies on the psychometric properties of growth and change measures. A second article presents Knapp's response to the critique. (JAC)

The performance of 101 educable mentally retarded children on four annual administrations of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale was analyzed using J. Sattler's standard deviation method and his Bintegram. Few of the children showed strengths and weaknesses until the original criteria were relaxed, and even then there was little stability over…

Replied to Hays and Stacy's critique of an article by Holmes, Dungan and McLaughlin in which the validity of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory alcoholism scales was questioned. Presents support for the original conclusions and comments on Hays and Stacy's reanalysis. (JAC)

This paper presents a method designed to assist practitioners in the interpretation of the practical significance of a statistically significant logistic regression coefficient is presented. To avoid the interpretation problems encountered when using the traditionally reported change in either the log odds or odds values, this method centers the…