A brief Spanish–English equivalent version of the Boston Naming Test: A Project FRONTIER Study

Abstract

The Boston Naming Test is a neuropsychological measure of confrontation naming, short forms of which can be advantageous with various populations. The purpose of this study was to establish a Spanish-English equivalent version of the BNT using item response theory. Data were analyzed from 380 Project FRONTIER participants; 27 items differed between groups and were removed from the measure. Additionally, 18 items did not differ between groups but were poor items. The current 15-item Spanish-English equivalent version of the BNT offers significant advantages. Future work is required to validate the diagnostic utility of the instrument in various settings and populations.

Texas Mexican American adult normative studies: Normative data for commonly used clinical neuropsychological measures for English- and Spanish-speakers

“…Given the size of the U.S. Mexican American population, clinical neuropsychological practitioners would greatly benefit from the provision of normative references on commonly utilized tests for this rapidly growing population. Such efforts to meet this growing need has resulted in initial psychometric analysis and normative references for the Clock Drawing Test (Menon, Hall, Hobson, Johnson, & O’Bryant, 2012), a Spanish-English equivalent version of the Boston Naming Test (Jahn et al, 2013) as well as an IRT-analysis of the Executive Interview (EXIT) which lead to the development of the EXIT8 (Jahn, Dressel, Gavett, & O’Bryant, 2015) based on data obtained from Mexican American and non-Hispanic white participants. Additionally, the SENAS was created specifically for administration of a Spanish-English equivalent neuropsychological instrument for Hispanics (Mungas, Reed, Crane, Haan, & González, 2004).…”

Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment: A Review and Illustrations Focusing on Item Response Theory Techniques

“…Rather than reflecting true group differences, differences in group performance may reflect item bias or a related psychometric limitation. Research regarding item bias or DIF within cognitive measures has grown over the past 20 years but is still limited (Crane, van Belle, Larson, 2004; Jahn et al, 2013). As such, further research is needed to continue to refine AD assessment resources in response to demographically diverse patient populations.…”

“…Aside from examining potential sources of bias, DIF analyses can be applied to facilitate test adaptation across languages (Jahn et al, 2013). As discussed previously, DIF can be observed on items when comparing different language administrations of a measure or groups of different primary-language speakers (Jones, 2006; Marshall et al, 1997).…”

“…As discussed previously, DIF can be observed on items when comparing different language administrations of a measure or groups of different primary-language speakers (Jones, 2006; Marshall et al, 1997). Items that demonstrate significant DIF across languages can be eliminated to reduce language–culture bias (Jahn et al, 2013; Mungas, Reed, Marshall, & González, 2000). This approach has been successfully used to adapt English versions of cognitive screeners such as the MMSE (Folstein et al, 1975) and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA; Nasreddine et al, 2005) into Spanish (Mungas et al, 2000) and Japanese (Ideno, Takayama, Hayashi, Takagi, & Sugai, 2012).…”

Texas Mexican American adult normative studies: Normative data for the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS)

“…Related to this, several commonly utilized neuropsychological tests have sought to establish ethnic-specific normative references including the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT, Lucus et al, 2005), Brief Visuospatial Memory Test-revised and Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-revised (BVMT, HVLT, Cherner et al, 2007), and Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS, Lucus et al, 2005). Further work has specifically focused on generating Mexican American normative references for measures including the Boston Naming Test (Jahn et al, 2013) as well as for the Clock Drawing Test (Menon, Hall, Hobson, Johnson & O’Bryant, 2012).…”