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Abstract
Pre-Conference Workshop in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Geriatrics Society of America
San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA, USA, 14 November 2012
In 2004, the NIH awarded contracts to initiate the development of high-quality psychological and neuropsychological outcome measures for the improved assessment of health-related outcomes. The workshop introduced these measurement development initiatives, the measures created and the NIH-supported resource (Assessment Center) for internet or tablet-based test administration and scoring. Presentations covered item response theory and assessment of test bias, construction of item banks and computerized adaptive testing, and the different ways in which qualitative analyses contribute to the definition of construct domains and the refinement of outcome constructs. The panel discussion included questions about representativeness of samples and the assessment of cultural bias.
Acknowledgements
The workshop organizers were current or former members of the Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research measurement cores, including Jack Goldberg, Ron D Hays (Chair), Judy Shea, Anita Stewart, Thomas N Templin, Jeanne A Teresi, Steven Wallace and Robert Weech-Maldonado.
Financial & competing interest disclosure
The workshop was supported with funding from the National Institute of Aging (grant R13-AG023033). In addition, investigators were supported by the following grants: NIA-2P30AG015281-16 (T Templin); Toolbox HHSN260200600007C, PROMIS Technical Center 5U54AR057943-04, PROMIS Technical Center Supplement to NIH Toolbox 3U54AR057943-04S1, PROMIS Technical Center Supplement 3U54AR057943-04S2 (RC Gershon); NCI-U01AR057971, NIMHD-P60MD00206, NIA-P30 AG028741 (JA Teresi); NIA-P30AG021684, NIMHD-P20MD000182 (RD Hays), NIA-P30AG15272 (A Stewart), P30AG031054 (R Weech-Maldonado), NIH-U54 AR057943, NIH-U05 AR057951 (N Rothrock). The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.
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