The poorly written administration and scoring instructions for the Boston Naming Test allow too wide a range of interpretations. Three different, seemingly correct interpretations of the scoring methods were compared. The results show that these methods can produce large differences in the total score.

Citation: Lauriola M, Mosca O, Trentini C, Foschi R, Tambelli R and Carleton RN (2018) The Intolerance of Uncertainty Inventory: Validity and Comparison of Scoring Methods to Assess Individuals Screening Positive for Anxiety and Depression. Front. Psychol. 9:388. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00388 The Intolerance of Uncertainty Inventory: Validity and Comparison of Scoring Methods to Assess Individu...

Accuracy of content have not been fully utilized in the previous studies on automated speaking assessment. Compared to writing tests, responses in speaking tests are noisy (due to recognition errors), full of incomplete sentences, and short. To handle these challenges for doing content-scoring in speaking tests, we propose two new methods based on information extraction (IE) and machine learnin...

INTRODUCTION Many scoring systems have been used for elbow disorders. However, only few of these have been validated, and many assess only few aspects of elbow function. METHODS A literature search was performed using the keyword 'elbow' in combination with 'scoring system', 'outcome assessment', 'elbow disorder' and 'clinical evaluation'. RESULTS Eighteen scoring systems are currently avai...