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MCCARTHY SCREENING TEST [1 record]

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Record 1 1988-09-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychometry and Psychotechnology
CONT

McCarthy Screening Test. Dorothea McCarthy. Ages: 4-6.5. ... [It] includes six component scales - all drawn from the "McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities - that are predictive of a child's ability to cope with schoolwork in the early grades. Typically, children who would be diagnosed as "learning disabled", or as having other handicaps that would interfere with learning, perform less well on these scales then do children no so diagnosed. Therefore, the ... test ... identifies children as being "at risk" or "not at risk".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychométrie et psychotechnique
OBS

Tant que le questionnaire n'est pas commercialisé (et traduit) en français, l'usage veut que l'on emploie l'expression anglaise, la seule officielle. Pour expliquer la chose, on pourrait parler du "test de dépistage de McCarthy".

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