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The Development and Application of a Computerized Information-Processing Test Battery

Gerald V. Barrett

The University of Akron

Ralph A. Alexander

The University of Akron

Dennis Doverspike

The University of Akron

Douglas Cellar

The University of Akron

Jay C. Thomas

Rice University

To bridge the gap between computerized testing and information-processing-based measurement, a battery of computerized information-processing-based ability and preference measures was developed. The information-processing and preference measures and a battery of paper-and-pencil tests were administered to 64 college students. Although the internal-consistency reliabilities of the computerized information-processing measures were adequate, test-retest reliabilities were lower than desirable for ability measures. The computerized information-processing measures possessed moderate convergent validity but had low correlations with traditional paper-and-pencil measures. Of the computerized preference measures, the most promising results were obtained with the Stimulus Pace measure. A major problem with the use of the computerized information-processing measures in applied settings would be administration time, as the battery took approximately 4 hours. In addition, problems with the stability of results over time and substantial practice effects suggest that even longer testing sessions would be required to obtain reliable measures. Although information-processing measures of short-term memory have, at best, low correlations with traditional intelligence tests, their ability to predict real-world tasks has yet to be sufficiently researched.

Applied Psychological Measurement, Vol. 6, No. 1, 13-29 (1982)
DOI: 10.1177/014662168200600102
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