Category archives: Psychometrics
Cognitive assessment of ADHD.
Cognitive assessment of the child.
In clinical practice we have 2 main strategies to obtain information about a child's cognitive functioning.
Diagnostic resources for ASD.
On the EspectroAutista website, multiple self-scoring questionnaires for ASD diagnosis are available. There are also resources on the AutismResearchCentre website. The M-CHAT-R/F questionnaire is available on the MCHATScreen website.
Standardized scores.
There is a mobile application called NormScales that allows transformation between different scoring systems, including percentiles. There are also web resources where calculators can be used to convert scores from one system to another.
Psychometric tests
There are several resources to facilitate the interpretation of psychometric tests. The main difficulty they present is knowing which standardized scores each one uses, what its mean and standard deviation are, in order to transform them into the scoring system that is most comfortable or to which we are most accustomed (z, for …