Revised administration and scoring of the digit span test.

HL Blackburn, AL Benton - Journal of consulting psychology, 1957 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract" This study explored the effect of certain modifications in administration and scoring
on the test-retest reliability of the digit span. These modifications consisted of:(a) Having S …

Comparability, reliability, and practice effects on alternate forms of the Digit Symbol Substitution and Symbol Digit Modalities tests.

A Hinton-Bayre, G Geffen - Psychological assessment, 2005 - psycnet.apa.org
The present study examined the comparability of 4 alternate forms of the Digit Symbol
Substitution test and the Symbol Digit Modalities (written) test, including the original …

Separate digits tests: A brief history, a literature review, and a reexamination of the factor structure of the Test of Memory and Learning (TOMAL)

MC Ramsay, CR Reynolds - Neuropsychology review, 1995 - Springer
Following a brief history of Digit Span, a review of 27 articles, selected from 76, addresses
the question of whether to scale Digits Forward and Backward separately. The review …

Digit span as an anxiety indicator.

S Moldawsky, PC Moldawsky - Journal of Consulting Psychology, 1952 - psycnet.apa.org
Results were obtained which supported the hypothesis that" anxiety results in a greater
decrement in Digit Span scores than in Vocabulary scores…." Subjects were 32 college …

Equivalence of conventional and computer presentation of speed tests

VA Greaud, BF Green - Applied Psychological Measurement, 1986 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examined the effects of computer pre sentation on speeded clerical tests. Two
ratio scores—average number of correct responses per minute and its inverse, average …

Effects of serial position and delay of probe in a memory scan task.

C Clifton, S Birenbaum - Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1970 - psycnet.apa.org
In a task in which 12 13-15 yr. old girls indicated whether a probe digit was a member of a
previously seen list, the effect of the position of the probed item in the list upon the speed of …

Test theory

J Lumsden - Annual review of psychology, 1976 - annualreviews.org
How could we make the flogging wall test more reliable? One way would be to make it
longer, to use more items. Another would be to reduce the amplitude of the flogging, that is …

Relation of forward and backward digit repetition to neurological impairment in children with learning disabilities

RG Rudel, MB Denckla - Neuropsychologia, 1974 - Elsevier
The WISC digit span scaled scores of 297 children with learning disabilities fell below any of
their overall IQ measures. More than 30 per cent of these Ss also had a greater than normal …

A factorial study of number ability

CH Coombs - Psychometrika, 1941 - Springer
In order to investigate certain hypotheses concerning the nature of number ability, and,
secondarily, the nature of perceptual speed, a battery of thirty-four tests was given to 223 …

Memory span tests

HJ Humpstone - The psychological clinic, 1919 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Nor is this very desirable, because in every day life from childhood we habitually use some
such methods of combining impressions, and the results obtained from these tests are more …