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Construct Validity of the Tower of London Test: Generating a Construct Specification Equation Relating Problem Characteristics to Problem Difficulty in a Sample of Veterans with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.

J Kay Waid-Ebbs, Pey-Shan Wen, Bryant A Seamon, Craig A Velozo

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4 authors.

J Kay Waid-EbbsBrain Rehabilitation Research Center, North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Pey-Shan WenGeorgia State University, Atlanta, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8921-8801
Bryant A SeamonMedical University of South Carolina, Charleston, USA.
Craig A VelozoMedical University of South Carolina, Charleston, USA.

Funding

RRD VA I01 RX003984RRD VA I21 RX003189RRD VA IK2 RX000902
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Tower of London (TOL) is a set of problem-solving tasks that are commonly used to measure cognition. No studies have developed construct specification equations (CSEs) to mathematically quantify how the characteristics of test problems relate to the difficulty of the problem in the TOL. We aimed to investigate the relationship between TOL problem characteristics and problem difficulty in Veterans with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). For each problem, the sample average of moves, time, and optimal moves was used to quantify TOL problem difficulty from 77 Veterans with mild traumatic brain injury. Problem characteristics of minimum moves, optimal paths, move choices, start position, and goal position for 29 TOL problems were linearly regressed against quantifications of TOL problem difficulty. Only the problem characteristic of minimum moves showed a significant correlation across all three quantifications of problem difficulty (

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Brain ConcussionBrain Injuries, TraumaticCognition DisordersNeuropsychological TestsProblem SolvingVeteransFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPsychometricsReproducibility of Resultscognitionneuropsychological teststraumatic brain injuriesvalidity

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PMID40781995
PMCPMC13230642

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