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A re‐evaluation of an automated tailored test of concept learning with elderly psychiatric patients
Author(s) -
Volans P. J.,
Levy R.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
british journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0144-6657
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1982.tb00537.x
Subject(s) - psychology , test (biology) , ceiling effect , matching (statistics) , validation test , psychometrics , subject (documents) , cognitive psychology , ceiling (cloud) , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , psychiatry , test validity , medicine , computer science , physics , alternative medicine , pathology , paleontology , library science , meteorology , biology
Aspects of a revised version of the Picture Matching Test were evaluated in a sample of 33 elderly psychiatric patients. The new version of the test shared many defects of the older form, e.g. an uneven increase in levels of difficulty and a low ceiling. The derived speed of response measure was more closely related to the way in which the system responded to a subject's errors than to any of the other more direct measures of a subject's performance. Furthermore, there was no evidence to suggest that the method of controlling for practice effects, as suggested by the test's distributors, would be effective.