Comparability of Scores on Projector-and Booklet-Administered Forms of the Category Test in Brain-Impaired Veterans and Controls

• Published in: Neuropsychology Vol. 10; no. 2; pp. 194 - 196
• Main Authors: Holtz, Jan Leslie, Gearhart, Lee P, Watson, Charles G
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Psychological Association 01-04-1996
• Subjects: Brain Damage; Female; Halstead Reitan Neuropsychological Battery; Human; Male; Military Veterans; Test Administration; Test Battery; Test Reliability; Test Scores
• ISSN: 0894-4105; 1931-1559
• DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.10.2.194

The authors administered booklet and projector versions of
the Category Test of the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological
Test Battery to brain-impaired inpatients and to nonhospitalized,
mostly male controls. Individual subtest and total score
correlations between the forms were generally large in the
brain-impaired sample. They were lower, although satisfactory, among
the controls. Brain-impaired participants made significantly more
errors on 6 of 7 subtests and on total scores. All 8 tests for
differences between booklet and projector form means and all 24
comparisons of booklet and projector form variances were
nonsignificant. These findings support use of the booklet as a
convenient substitute for the projector format in populations
similar to ours.