What if a respondent endorses two different items when his/her comments indicate that the endorsements of both items refer to the same behavior or characteristic? 27. May 2021 Administrator Older Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions, Scoring Older Adult Form Questions (0) Answer: Score only the item that most specifically describes the problem. For example, if the respon [More]
Can other assessment procedures be used with the ASEBA forms? 27. May 2021 Administrator Older Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions (0) Answer: The ASEBA forms can be used in conjunction with any other assessment procedures, such as per [More]
If respondents fill out the forms, won’t this cause them to focus exclusively on the individual who is being assessed instead of on family or marital relationships? 27. May 2021 Administrator Older Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions (0) Answer: When people seek help, they expect to provide information about the problems for which help [More]
Are there machine-readable or web-based versions of the forms? 27. May 2021 Administrator Older Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions (0) Answer: Please e-mail questions about the status of machine-readable and web-based versions of the f [More]
Are there short forms that take less time to fill out? 27. May 2021 Administrator Older Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions (0) Answer: There are no authorized short forms. Most respondents can complete the OASR or OABCL in abou [More]
The OASR and OABCL instruct respondents to base ratings on the previous 2 months. What if a form is to be readministered over intervals of less than 2 months? 27. May 2021 Administrator Older Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions (0) Answer: The 2-month instruction can be adjusted for shorter intervals. If the interval is shortened [More]
Can the forms be used outside their designated age ranges? 27. May 2021 Administrator Older Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions (0) Answer: For people who are 57 to 59 years old, there will not be much error in using the older adult [More]
Can social desirability, lying, and informant characteristics, such as depression, cause biases in scores? 27. May 2021 Administrator Older Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions (0) Answer: Many informant characteristics may be associated with scores on all kinds of questionnaires. [More]
Don’t certain items involve subjective judgments, such as 23. Feels too guilty and 32. Feels worthless or inferior? 27. May 2021 Administrator Older Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions (0) Answer: Subjectivity is involved in all ratings of any person by another person. Some items are less [More]
What if a respondent can’t read English but can read a different language? 27. May 2021 Administrator Older Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions (0) Answer: For the current status of translations into a particular language, please visit www.ASEBA.or [More]
What if a respondent can’t read well enough to complete a form? 27. May 2021 Administrator Older Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions (0) Answer: The forms require only fifth-grade reading skills. They can also be administered orally by a [More]
What if informants say they don’t know enough about an older adult to rate certain items? 27. May 2021 Administrator Older Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions (0) Answer: If an informant has known the older adult for at least 2 months, he/she should be encouraged [More]
If two or more informants are available to complete the OABCL, should they collaborate in completing a single OABCL, or should they independently complete separate OABCLs? 27. May 2021 Administrator Older Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions (0) Answer: Each informant should independently complete a separate OABCL to reflect his/her own views o [More]
Why are the OASR and OABCL said to have 113 problem items when the item numbers on pages 2 and 3 go to 123? 27. May 2021 Administrator Older Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions (0) Answer: Item 49 includes 11 items for physical complaints, designated as a through k. These 11 items [More]
How do the OASR and OABCL differ from the ASR and ABCL? 27. May 2021 Administrator Older Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions (0) Answer: The ASR and ABCL are designed and normed for ages 18 to 59. The ASR has adaptive functioning [More]
With school age informants, how can the scores from the earlier and later assessments be compared? 26. May 2021 Administrator Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions, Relations of the ADULT forms to ASEBA forms for other ages (0) Answer: Several scales of the school-age forms are quite comparable to scales of the adult forms. Ho [More]
How can data from the ASR and ABCL be coordinated for research purposes? 26. May 2021 Administrator Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions, Coordinating Data from Different informants (0) Answer: Cross-informant data can be used to classify people as deviant vs. nondeviant by selecting a [More]
What if there are disagreements between scores obtained from different informants? 26. May 2021 Administrator Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions, Coordinating Data from Different informants (0) Answer: Informants seldom agree perfectly in their reports of people’s problems. One reason fo [More]
Why do some items differ between the ASR and ABCL versions of a syndrome scale, such as the Anxious/Depressed scale? 26. May 2021 Administrator Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions, Coordinating Data from Different informants (0) Answer: As explained in Chapter 7, the ASR and ABCL scales for scoring some syndrome constructs diff [More]
How are data coordinated from different informants? 26. May 2021 Administrator Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions, Coordinating Data from Different informants (0) Answer: The most effective way is to use the Ages 18-59 Module described in Chapter 3. For any combi [More]
For assessing outcomes and doing longitudinal research, how can deviance on the school-age scales be analyzed in relation to deviance on the adult scales scored later for the same individuals? 26. May 2021 Administrator Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions, Relations of the ADULT forms to ASEBA forms for other ages (0) Answer: The profiles for all the instruments provide criteria for classifying scores as being in the [More]
For longitudinal research, how can correlations be computed between the school-age scores and subsequent scores on the adult forms? 26. May 2021 Administrator Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions, Relations of the ADULT forms to ASEBA forms for other ages (0) Answer: Correlational and regression statistics are not affected by the absolute magnitudes of the s [More]
In evaluating individuals, how much of a change in scale scores should be considered a “real” change? 26. May 2021 Administrator Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions, Adult Profile Questions (0) Answer: A rough approximation to statistical criteria can be applied to scale scores for individuals [More]
In research samples, how much of a change in scale scores should be considered a “real” change? 26. May 2021 Administrator Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions, Adult Profile Questions (0) Answer: In research designed to compare the effects of different interventions with each other or wi [More]
What is the difference between a profile and a scoring template? 26. May 2021 Administrator Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions, Adult Profile Questions (0) Answer: A hand-scored profile is an 8½ x 14" sheet of paper on which the items of the ASR or [More]
What are the “DSM-oriented” scales? 26. May 2021 Administrator Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions, Adult Profile Questions (0) Answer: Questions are often raised about relations between empirically-based assessment and the diag [More]
Is there a “lie” scale for the profiles? 26. May 2021 Administrator Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions, Adult Profile Questions (0) Answer: Deliberate lying is only one factor that can lead to excessively low or high scores, dependi [More]
How are clinical interpretations of the profiles made? 26. May 2021 Administrator Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions, Adult Profile Questions (0) Answer: The profiles provide standardized descriptions of functioning, as seen by the person filling [More]
Why are there gaps between successive raw scores on some scales of the profiles? 26. May 2021 Administrator Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions, Adult Profile Questions (0) Answer: Most gaps directly reflect the distributions of scores in the normative samples, where skewe [More]
Should extremely low scores on problem scales be considered deviant? 26. May 2021 Administrator Adult Manual Frequently Asked Questions, Adult Profile Questions (0) Answer: Extremely low scores merely reflect the absence of reported problems. The profile compresses [More]