This leading practitioner reference and text--now in a revised and expanded fourth edition--provides the knowledge needed to use state-of-the-art cognitive tests with individuals of all ages, from preschoolers to adults. The volume examines major theories and tests of intelligence (in chapters written by the theorists and test developers ......
Coverage includes the essential measurement topics of scale development, item writing and analysis, and reliability and validity, as well as more advanced topics such as exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, item response theory, diagnostic classification models, test bias and fairness, standard setting, and equating.
Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales Developmental Profile (CSBS D
The CSBS DP (TM) Infant-Toddler Checklist and Easy-Score CD-ROM with accompanying User's Guide is an easy-to-use system that allows busy clinicians to quickly screen communication skills in young children ages 6-24 months. Caregivers take 5-10 minutes to respond to 24 multiple choice questions about their child's communication, and professionals ......
It is a compendium of information and tools for researchers considering SCD research, a methodology in which one or several participants (or other units) comprise a systematically-controlled experimental intervention study. SCD is a highly flexible method of conducting applied intervention research where it is not feasible or practical to collect ......
Evaluating Exaggeration, Feigning, and Noncredible Effort
Thoroughly covering the "why" and "how" of validity testing with children and adolescents, this book is edited and written by leaders in the field. Feigning or noncredible effort during psychological and neuropsychological assessments can have considerable repercussions for diagnosis, treatment, and use of resources. Practical guidance is provided ......
The authors identify five basic purposes of longitudinal structural equation modeling. For each purpose, they present the most useful strategies and models. Two important but underused approaches are emphasized: multiple factorial invariance over time and latent change scores.
Assessment of People with Serious Mental Illness in the Community
Suitable for outcome assessment, environmental assessment, and treatment planning assessment, this research-based compendium discusses assessment instruments in terms of both their psychometric properties and with respect to their real life applications in the lives of patients.
