Kramer Joel H, Mungas Dan, Possin Katherine L, Rankin Katherine P, Boxer Adam L, Rosen Howard J, Bostrom Alan, Sinha Lena, Berhel Ashley, Widmeyer Mary
1 Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, California.
2 Department of Neurology, University of California, Davis, California.
J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2014 Jan;20(1):11-9. doi: 10.1017/S1355617713001094. Epub 2013 Oct 8.
Executive functioning is widely targeted when human cognition is assessed, but there is little consensus on how it should be operationalized and measured. Recognizing the difficulties associated with establishing standard operational definitions of executive functioning, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke entered into a contract with the University of California-San Francisco to develop psychometrically robust executive measurement tools that would be accepted by the neurology clinical trials and clinical research communities. This effort, entitled Executive Abilities: Measures and Instruments for Neurobehavioral Evaluation and Research (EXAMINER), resulted in a series of tasks targeting working memory, inhibition, set shifting, fluency, insight, planning, social cognition and behavior. We describe battery conceptualization and development, data collection, scale construction based on item response theory, and lay the foundation for studying the battery's utility and validity for specific assessment and research goals.
在评估人类认知时,执行功能是广泛关注的对象,但对于如何对其进行操作化和测量,人们几乎没有达成共识。由于认识到建立执行功能标准操作定义存在困难,美国国立神经疾病和中风研究所与加利福尼亚大学旧金山分校签订了一份合同,以开发出在心理测量方面稳健的执行功能测量工具,这些工具将被神经学临床试验和临床研究领域所接受。这项名为“执行能力:神经行为评估和研究的测量方法与工具”(EXAMINER)的工作产生了一系列针对工作记忆、抑制、任务转换、流畅性、洞察力、计划、社会认知和行为的任务。我们描述了成套测试的概念化和开发、数据收集、基于项目反应理论的量表构建,并为研究该成套测试对于特定评估和研究目标的效用和有效性奠定基础。