Validity of individual test items of the Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-Revised (ACE-R) in stroke

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 227-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Ferguson ◽  
Nadina B Lincoln
1986 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 491-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gayle Privette ◽  
David Sherry

The Questionnaire: Peak Performance and Peak Experience is based on both research and theoretical content found through a comparative analysis of literature germane to peak performance, peak experience, and flow. The Dale-Chall Readability Formula indicated that readability of the questionnaire is at the upper limits of the 9th and 10th grades. A Pearson product-moment correlation, based on 33 paired trials, was used to estimate over-all reliability (.70) and reliability of 42 individual test items. Scores were from 21 women and 12 men, aged 20 to 49 yr.


1980 ◽  
Vol 14 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 531-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis A. Morris ◽  
David E. Kanouse

Four prototype patient package inserts (PPIs) for erythromycin were tested in an analog study using 325 individuals drawn from a college community. There was no difference in the total amount of knowledge communicated by the different PPIs, but results for individual test items suggest (1) that more explicit information may be better recalled, and (2) that longer PPIs may aid in information integration, whereas shorter PPIs may aid in pure recall of facts. PPIs containing elaboration on why drug effects occur were rated by the subjects as more “accurate.” Subjects tended to rate PPIs that provided behavioral instructions on what to do if certain drug effects occurred as designed to promote better care.


1977 ◽  
Vol 44 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1251-1257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth H. Wiig ◽  
Diane P. Florence ◽  
Shari M. Kutner ◽  
Barbara Sherman ◽  
Eleanor M. Semel

The present study evaluated and compared the perception and interpretation of 21 explicit negative sentences by 15 learning disabled third graders and 15 controls, 20 learning disabled adolescents and 20 controls, and 16 randomly selected adults. The proportions of correct interpretations of the experimental sentences did not differ significantly among subject groups. In a similar vein the proportions of correct responses to individual test items did not differ significantly. The findings suggest that the learning-disabled third graders and adolescents adequately perceived the stressed negated elements and interpreted the meanings of the explicit negative sentences appropriately. These findings conflict with previous observations that dyslexic children experienced problems in processing prosodic suprasegmental features (Vogel, 1974).


2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosalind Potts ◽  
Robin Law ◽  
John F. Golding ◽  
David Groome

Retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) refers to the finding that the retrieval of an item from memory impairs the retrieval of related items. The extent to which this impairment is found in laboratory tests varies between individuals, and recent studies have reported an association between individual differences in the strength of the RIF effect and other cognitive and clinical factors. The present study investigated the reliability of these individual differences in the RIF effect. A RIF task was administered to the same individuals on two occasions (sessions T1 and T2), one week apart. For Experiments 1 and 2 the final retrieval test at each session made use of a category-cue procedure, whereas Experiment 3 employed category-plus-letter cues, and Experiment 4 used a recognition test. In Experiment 2 the same test items that were studied, practiced, and tested at T1 were also studied, practiced, and tested at T2, but for the remaining three experiments two different item sets were used at T1 and T2. A significant RIF effect was found in all four experiments. A significant correlation was found between RIF scores at T1 and T2 in Experiment 2, but for the other three experiments the correlations between RIF scores at T1 and T2 failed to reach significance. This study therefore failed to find clear evidence for reliable individual differences in RIF performance, except where the same test materials were used for both test sessions. These findings have important implications for studies involving individual differences in RIF performance.


1982 ◽  
Vol 27 (12) ◽  
pp. 966-967
Author(s):  
Jason Millman
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