%0 Journal Article
%T The Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test: evidence of psychometric adequacy
%A ELLEN GROBER
%A KATJA OCEPEK-WELIKSON
%A JEANNE A. TERESI
%J Psychology Science Quarterly
%D 2009
%I 
%X These analyses examine the psychometric properties of the Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test with Immediate Recall (FCSRT-IR). FCSRT-IR is a measure of memory under conditions that control attention and cognitive processing in order to obtain an assessment of memory unconfounded by normal agerelated changes in cognition. FCSRT-IR performance has been associated with preclinical and early dementia in several longitudinal epidemiological studies. Factor and item response theory analyses were applied to FCSRT-IR data from patients at a geriatric primary care center who had independently established clinical diagnoses. The results provide supporting evidence for the psychometric adequacy of the FCSR-IR in terms of reliability, essential (sufficient) unidimensionality, information across the continuum of memory disability/ability, and classification accuracy. The psychometric adequacy of the FCSRT-IR adds further validity to its use as a case finding strategy for dementia.
%K Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test
%K item response theory
%K factor analyses
%K early dementia
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