Domenic V. Cicchetti

Guidelines, criteria, and rules of thumb for evaluating normed and standardized assessment instruments in psychology.

In the context of the development of prototypic assessment instruments in the areas of cognition, personality, and adaptive functioning, the issues of standardization, norming p...

Developing criteria for establishing interrater reliability of specific items: applications to assessment of adaptive behavior.

A set of criteria based upon biostatistical considerations for determining the interrater reliability of specific adaptive behavior items in a given setting was presented. The a...

Diagnostic Uses of the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales

This report presents an overview of the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales and two measures of cognitive ability: the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (i.e., sequential an...

Assessment of adaptive behavior in young children.

Assessing the reliability of clinical scales when the data have both nominal and ordinal features: Proposed guidelines for neuropsychological assessments

The purpose of this article is to present, for the first time, a comprehensive methodology for assessing the reliability of a clinical scale that is frequently utilized in neuro...