Practitioner's Guide to Evaluating Change With Neuropsychological Assessment Instruments

by McCaffrey, Robert J.; Duff, Kevin; Westervelt, Holly James

• ISBN13: 9780306463617
• ISBN10: 030646361X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Plenum Pub Corp

Summary

Until now, clinical neuropsychologists had few guidelines to assist them in determining if a change in a patient's performance across assessments was due to an intervention, maturation, practice effects or a combination of factors. The editors of Practitioner's Guide to Evaluating Change With Neuropsychological Assessment Instruments have done a thorough review of the literature from 1970-1998 and extracted and compiled all reported information on practice effects. Each table in this volume includes information on the subject/patient groups, the n, gender, age, intervention, interval between assessments, scores at both assessment points, and the original reference citation. The tables are listed alphabetically for the seventy-five most widely used assessment instruments. This one-of-a-kind reference will provide clinicians, as well as researchers with an invaluable resource.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(21)
Reliability	2	(2)
Regression to the Mean	4	(1)
Practice Effects	4	(6)
Controlling Practice Effects	6	(1)
Statistical Procedures	6	(1)
Methodological Procedures	7	(3)
Person-Specific Variables	10	(8)
Age	11	(2)
Gender	13	(1)
Intelligence	14	(1)
Education	15	(1)
Disease Process	16	(2)
An Illustrative Example	18	(3)
Tables	21	(496)
Abbreviations	21	(16)
Tables	37	(480)
References	517	(26)
Index	543