The psychometric equivalence of two alternate forms of the Controlled Oral Word Association Test

Clinical Neuropsychologist

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 414-431

  Ross, Thomas P ^a   Furr, Ashley E ^a   Carter, Sara E ^a   Weinberg, Marc ^a  

^a Department of Teacher Education and Department of Sociology and Anthropology   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 33747144075     PISSN: 13854046     EISSN: 17444144     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13854040590967153     Document Type: Article

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