ERIC Number: EJ823878
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008-Dec
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The Serial Use of Child Neurocognitive Tests: Development versus Practice Effects
Slade, Peter D.; Townes, Brenda D.; Rosenbaum, Gail; Martins, Isabel P.; Luis, Henrique; Bernardo, Mario; Martin, Michael D.; DeRouen, Timothy A.
Psychological Assessment, v20 n4 p361-369 Dec 2008
When serial neurocognitive assessments are performed, 2 main factors are of importance: test-retest reliability and practice effects. With children, however, there is a third, developmental factor, which occurs as a result of maturation. Child tests recognize this factor through the provision of age-corrected scaled scores. Thus, a ready-made method for estimating the relative contribution of developmental versus practice effects is the comparison of raw (developmental and practice) and scaled (practice only) scores. Data from a pool of 507 Portuguese children enrolled in a study of dental amalgams (T. A. DeRouen, B. G. Leroux, et al., 2002; T. A. DeRouen, M. D. Martin, et al., 2006) showed that practice effects over a 5-year period varied on 8 neurocognitive tests. Simple regression equations are provided for calculating individual retest scores from initial test scores. (Contains 4 tables, 2 figures and 1 footnote.)
Descriptors: Validity, Diagnostic Tests, Test Reliability, Children, Raw Scores, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Cognitive Tests, Neurology, Child Development, Age Differences, Scores, Computation, Regression (Statistics), Dental Health
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