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Peer reviewedMcDermott, Paul A. – Journal of Special Education, 1980
To produce a greater degree of consistency and reliability in diagnosis of handicapped children, a system called multidimensional actuarial classification is presented for differential diagnosis of mental retardation, inadequate adaptive behavior, social maladjustment, academic under and overachievement, and learning disabilities. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Disability Identification, Educational Diagnosis, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedMcDermott, Paul A.; And Others – Journal of Special Education, 1992
This study analyzed the relative efficacy of normative (population relative) and ipsative (person relative) measures for the study of intraindividual and interindividual differences in child ability. Ipsative ability measures were found to be uniformly inferior to their normative counterparts and conveyed no uniquely useful information. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Individual Differences
