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Alternate test forms; Multiple test versions
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Cognitive measures that are designed for repeated administration through the use of similar versions of the test material.
Current Knowledge
Patients often need to be evaluated on multiple occasions in order to examine change over the course of time. For example, repeated testing is important in assisting the documentation of deterioration following a diagnosis of progressive dementia or for monitoring the improvement following a closed head injury. Serial testing is not common in neuropsychological practice and have a utility in clinical, forensic, and research settings. However, practice effects of repeated testing can positively skew the results and thereby provide an inflation of patient’s performance. Parallel forms assist in the examination of cognitive improvement across time by altering the material that is presented in order to decrease practice effects without losing the gestalt of the measure that is being...
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Getz, G.E. (2018). Parallel Forms. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_1229
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