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Scores on cognitive ability tests used in tertiary admissions contexts generally have very limited currency. This can have significant implications for prospective applicants to high-demand courses which use cognitive tests as part of the selection process. In this paper we present both psychometric and non-psychometric considerations regarding the score currency of ability tests, using GAMSAT (Graduate Medical School Admissions Test) as an example. We found that GAMSAT scores showed sufficient stability at the cohort level for institutions to be reasonably confident that a test score would co...

Date Time New test to study language development in youth with Down syndrome Expressive language sampling (ELS) is a useful tool for measuring communication development in youth with Down syndrome, a new multi-site study has found. Youth with Down syndrome may have language delays The study was co-led by Angela Thurman and Leonard Abbeduto from the UC Davis MIND Institute and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. It focused on language as an outcome measure to detect meaningful changes in communication skills of individuals with Down syndrome. It successfully tested and valid...