Normative data and psychometric properties for qualitative and quantitative scoring criteria of the Five-point Test

Clinical Neuropsychologist

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 675-690

  Goebel, Simone ^a   Fischer, Regina ^a   Ferstl, Roman ^b   Mehdorn, Hubertus Maximilian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Design fluency; Executive functioning; Five point Test; Normative data; Qualitative scoring; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FIVE POINT TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; ADOLESCENT; AGE; BRAIN; COGNITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EVALUATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; COGNITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650684034     PISSN: 13854046     EISSN: 17444144     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13854040802389185     Document Type: Article

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