OBJECTIVE To evaluate the psychometric properties of Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) in patients with acquired brain injury in Turkey. METHODS A total of 207 patients with acquired brain injury were assessed. Reliability was tested by internal consistency and the person separation index; internal construct validity by Rasch analysis; external construct validity by correlation with cognit...

this study aimed at investigating differential item functioning (dif) on the special english test of the iranian national university entrance exam (inuee). the effect of gender and subject area was taken into account. the study utilized one-parameter irt model with a sample of 36000 students who sat for the inuee special english test in 2004 and/or 2005. the findings confirmed the presence of d...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate cross-regional validity of the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS) with a specific focus on valid use with Middle Europeans. DESIGN Descriptive cross-regional validation study. PARTICIPANTS A total of 1346 participants from Middle Europe and 144,143 participants from North America, UK/Ireland, the Nordic Countries, other Europe, Australia/New Zealand and Asia...