A Japanese Short Form of the Swanson Cognitive Processing Test to Measure Working Memory: Reliability, Validity, and Differences in Scores between Primary School Children of the United States and Japan

The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of a Japanese short form of the Swanson Cognitive Processing Test, which assesses capacity of working memory. Test-retest reliability was acceptable (r = .76). Concurrent validity was suggested through comparison of scores on the...

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Published in:Psychological reports 2006-08, Vol.99 (1), p.27-38
Main Authors: Hwang, Yeonhee, Hosokawa, Toru, Swanson, H. Lee, Ishizaka, Ikuyo, Kifune, Noriyuki, Ohira, Dan, Ota, Tomio
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Child
Cognition
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Female
Humans
Japan
Language
Male
Memory
Neuropsychological Tests
Reading
Reproducibility of Results
United States
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Summary:The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of a Japanese short form of the Swanson Cognitive Processing Test, which assesses capacity of working memory. Test-retest reliability was acceptable (r = .76). Concurrent validity was suggested through comparison of scores on the Reading Span Task (r = .55). Means on the Japanese short form were comparable with means for the 3 subtests for the older group and 2 subtests for the younger group. With the exception of the Auditory Digit Sequence, results suggested that both the Japanese short form and the initial Swanson Cognitive Processing Test measured comparably the working memory in the two samples of children.
ISSN:0033-2941
1558-691X
DOI:10.2466/pr0.99.1.27-38