The reliability of production strategy scores for the Ruff Figural Fluency Test

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 879-891

  Ross, Thomas P ^a   Foard, E Lindsay ^a   Hiott, F Berry ^a   Vincent, Angela ^a  

^a School of Business   (United States)

Author keywords

Design fluency; Executive functioning; Interrater; Qualitative scoring; Ruff Figural Fluency Test; Strategy use; Test retest

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY; RUFF FIGURAL FLUENCY TEST; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0242678354     PISSN: 08876177     EISSN: 18735843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-6177(02)00163-4     Document Type: Article

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