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Title: The Matching Familiar Figures Test: A Look at Its Psychometric Credibility.
Authors: Egeland, Byron, Weinberg, Richard A.
Source: Child Development. Jun1976, Vol. 47 Issue 2, p483-491. 9p.
Subjects: Psychometrics, Matching Familiar Figures Test, Reflections of Nazism (Book), Perception in children, Senses in children, Canonical correlation (Statistics)
Abstract: In an attempt to evaluate the psychometric credibility of the Matching Familiar Figures Test (MFFT) as the operational measure of reflection-impulsivity, a study of the short-term (1 week) reliability of different versions of the MFF7 for boys and girls at kindergarten, second, and fifth grades was conducted. The relations between time 1 and time 2 latencies and errors separately for males and females at all 3 grade levels, while significant, were low. Canonical correlations and test-retest correlations based on combining raw time and error scores into a standard score were approximately .65-.75. The x[sup2] analyses indicated that approximately 45%-70% of the subjects classified as impulsive or reflective at time 1 were classified in the same way at time 2. Reliability at the kindergarten level was particularly poor and suggests that the MFFT should not be used with children at that age. Mean differences were found among different forms of the MFFT and across grade level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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