Reliability and Validity in Neuropsychological Assessment

✍ Scribed by Michael D. Franzen (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 463
• Series: Critical Issues in Neuropsychology
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

No other book reviews clinical neuropsychological assessment from an empirical psychometric perspective. In this completely revised and updated 2nd edition, the concepts and methods of psychometric neuropsychology are presented as a framework by which to evaluate current instruments. Newer methodologies and statistical techniques are discussed, such as meta analysis, effect size, confirming factor analysis and ecological validity. The explosion of research in this area since the publication of the first edition in 1989, has been incorporated, including a greatly expanded chapter on child assessment instruments.
This volume is a must for the bookshelf of every clinical neuropsychologist as well as researchers and students. Anyone conducting forensic evaluations will especially find useful the information on reliability and validity when preparing for court appearances.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Preliminary Measurement Considerations in Clinical Neuropsychological Assessment....Pages 1-5
General and Theoretical Considerations in the Assessment of Reliability....Pages 7-13
Practical and Methodological Considerations Regarding Reliability....Pages 15-26
Elemental Considerations in Validity....Pages 27-32
Validity as Applied to Neuropsychological Assessment....Pages 33-54
The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-III....Pages 55-70
The Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children—the WISC-R, WISC-III, and WPPSI-R....Pages 71-89
Tests of General Intelligence....Pages 91-114
The Halstead—Reitan and Luria—Nebraska Neuropsychological Batteries....Pages 115-151
Benton’s Neuropsychological Assessment....Pages 153-170
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and Personality Assessment Inventory....Pages 171-191
The Rorschach Inkblots....Pages 193-202
The Wechsler Memory Scale and its Revisions....Pages 203-228
Tests of Memory....Pages 229-254
Tests of Verbal Functions....Pages 255-265
Tests of Visual and Construction Functions....Pages 267-281
Tests of Higher Cognitive Function....Pages 283-297
Screening Devices....Pages 299-317
Tests of Achievement and Aptitude....Pages 319-329
Methods for Evaluating the Validity of Test Scores....Pages 331-348
The Assessment of Child Neuropsychological Function....Pages 349-353
Postscript—Future Directions....Pages 355-356
Back Matter....Pages 355-465

✦ Subjects

Neuropsychology; Methodology of the Social Sciences; Neurology