We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
The Swedish National Adult Reading Test (NART-SWE): A test of premorbid IQ.
- Authors
ROLSTAD, SINDRE; NORDLUND, ARTO; GUSTAVSSON, MARIE HELENE; ECKERSTRÖM, CARL; KLANG, OLA; HANSEN, STEFAN; WALLIN, ANDERS
- Abstract
The purpose of this study was to construct a Swedish version of the National Adult Reading Test (NART-SWE), a test for assessment of premorbid IQ, and to investigate its validity and reliability on healthy controls and patients with mild Alzheimer's disease. As Swedish pronunciation rules are fixed, NART-SWE was constructed using loan words. NART-SWE has satisfactory psychometric properties: Inter-rater and retest reliability as well as internal consistency are very high. The NART-SWE demonstrates face validity. In addition, high correlation with IQ was obtained. A significant model emerged when using NART-SWE to predict IQ. Furthermore, no significant differences were observed when comparing performance for healthy controls’ with that of patients with Alzheimer's disease on NART-SWE. It does appear that reading of irregular words is intact in mild Alzheimer's disease.
- Subjects
SWEDEN; ADULT literacy programs; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; ABILITY testing; ALZHEIMER'S disease; PSYCHOMETRICS; INTELLIGENCE levels; LOANWORDS; STATISTICAL correlation
- Publication
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 2008, Vol 49, Issue 6, p577
- ISSN
0036-5564
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9450.2008.00677.x