Yavion, Stephanie (2018) Standardised Memory Assessment in Children: What Really Matters? Honours thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
Abstract
The Children’s Memory Scale is a comprehensive battery of learning and memory, which is popular due to its large standardisation sample and co-standardisation with the Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children. However, the administration process is time consuming with concerns regarding the structure (i.e., consecutive memory tests), causing interference with the ability to effectively recall information. The Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test, a listlearning memory test, utilises an isolated interference component and is cost effective and time efficient. Using an archival database of 103 participants, this thesis aimed to discover a more efficient approach to memory testing. First, by evaluating the efficacy of delayed recall and, second, by evaluating the effectiveness of the verbal components of these memory tests. Two domains of the Children’s Memory Scale (verbal immediate and delayed) and relevant trials on the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (immediate, learning, and delayed) were examined using correlations, t-tests, and base rates. The results indicated that removal of delayed recall would not result in a loss of clinically important information for the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test, but it would for the Children’s Memory Scale. Additionally, the tests were comparable indicating that the removal of the verbal subtests from the Children’s Memory Scale would not cause a reduction in information produced from testing. These findings provide clinicians with the option to reduce testing time and burden on the client by removing the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test delayed trial and Children’s Memory Scale verbal subtests, reducing the overall testing time by approximately 40minutes.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Non-Research) (Honours) |
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| Item Status: | Live Archive |
| Additional Information: | Current UniSQ staff and students can request access to this thesis. Please email research.repository@unisq.edu.au with a subject line of SEAR thesis request and provide: Name of the thesis requested and Your name and UniSQ email address |
| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences - School of Psychology and Counselling (1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2021) |
| Supervisors: | Adina Piovesana; Trish Beaumont |
| Qualification: | Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Aug 2025 00:33 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Aug 2025 00:33 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | CMS, RAVLT, immediate and delayed recall, verbal memory, children and adolescents, efficiency, assessment |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 1799 Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5299 Other psychology > 529999 Other psychology not elsewhere classified |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/52900 |
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