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1002 INVITED SYMPOSIUM
Test development and use in selected Asian countries
Convener and Chair: T. Oakland, USA
1002.1 A state-of-the-art of test use and development in the Philippines, C. Callueng, De la
Salle University-Manila, Manila, Philippines
Significant efforts of Filipino psychologists and researchers to develop and use psychological tests
are discussed. This somewhat comprehensive picture of psychological testing practices in the
Philippines is based on a review of published and unpublished scholarship. Following a dearth of
locally made tests in the 1950s, The Philippines now abounds with measures of diverse
psychological constructs with well-established psychometric properties. Similarly, use of
psychological tests has become widespread though still concentrated in traditional settings (e.g.,
schools, clinics, and industry).
1002.2 Factorial validity of the beck depression inventory-II for Hong Kong adolescents, B.M.
Byrne 1 , S.M. Stewart 2 , 1 University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada; 2 University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, TX, USA
Purpose of the study was to test for the validity of a Chinese version of the Beck Depression
Inventory-II (C-BDI-II) for use with Hong Kong community adolescents. Based on a randomized
triadic split of the data (N=1460), we conducted exploratory factor analysis on Group1, and
confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) on Groups 2 and 3, the second CFA serving to cross-validate
the determined factor structure. Second-order factor analytic results replicated those reported
previously for Canadian, Swedish, and Bulgarian adolescents. Findings related to internal
consistency reliability, stability, and relations with relevant external criteria, strongly supported
use of the C-BDI-II in measuring depressive symptoms for this population.
1002.3 Nonverbal intelligence among Asian-Pacific islander children, B. Bracken, The College
of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA
This study investigates cognitive functioning among Asian students in the US. Participants, ages 5
to 18, were from the normative sample of the Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test, including 85
children designated as Asian or Pacific Islanders. Descriptive statistics are reported for UNIT
subtests (i.e., Symbolic Memory, Cube Design, Spatial Memory, Analogic Reasoning, Object
Memory, Mazes), Scales (i.e., Memory, Reasoning, Symbolic, Nonsymbolic), and Full Scale IQs
for the Abbreviated, Standard, and Extended Batteries. Participants were matched with Caucasian
students on gender, age, and parents’education. The Asian students scored significantly higher
than the Caucasian sample on each subtest, scale, and FSIQ.
1002.4 Test use and indigenization: The case of Hong Kong, S.F. Cheung, F.M. Cheung, The
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
The use of psychological assessment tools in Hong Kong will be reviewed briefly. Most
commonly used instruments were adapted from Western instruments. In most cases, the adaptation
involved only translation and minor item revision. Constructs relevant to the Chinese culture were
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