The Assessment of Basic Learning Abilities (ABLA) test assesses the ease or difficulty with which persons with developmental disabilities are able to learn 2-choice visual and auditory discriminations. We examined the ABLA's ability to predict 3-choice discrimination performance with 12 adults with developmental disabilities. Participants performed significantly better on 3-choice tasks that require discriminations that they passed on the 2-choice tasks than on 3-choice tasks that require discriminations that they failed on the 2-choice tasks, strengthening the ABLA's predictive validity. Theoretical and applied implications of these results are discussed.
%0 Journal Article
%1 DoanMar2007
%A Doan, Lori A.
%A Martin, Toby L.
%A Yu, C.T.
%A Martin, Garry L.
%D 2007
%J Journal on Developmental Disabilities
%K 2007 ABLA DD SARC choice discriminations
%N 3
%P 1-11
%T Do ABLA test results predict performance on three-choice discriminations for persons with developmental disabilities?
%U http://www.oadd.org/publications/journal/issues/vol13no3/doanEtAl.htm
%V 13
%X The Assessment of Basic Learning Abilities (ABLA) test assesses the ease or difficulty with which persons with developmental disabilities are able to learn 2-choice visual and auditory discriminations. We examined the ABLA's ability to predict 3-choice discrimination performance with 12 adults with developmental disabilities. Participants performed significantly better on 3-choice tasks that require discriminations that they passed on the 2-choice tasks than on 3-choice tasks that require discriminations that they failed on the 2-choice tasks, strengthening the ABLA's predictive validity. Theoretical and applied implications of these results are discussed.
@article{DoanMar2007,
abstract = {The Assessment of Basic Learning Abilities (ABLA) test assesses the ease or difficulty with which persons with developmental disabilities are able to learn 2-choice visual and auditory discriminations. We examined the ABLA's ability to predict 3-choice discrimination performance with 12 adults with developmental disabilities. Participants performed significantly better on 3-choice tasks that require discriminations that they passed on the 2-choice tasks than on 3-choice tasks that require discriminations that they failed on the 2-choice tasks, strengthening the ABLA's predictive validity. Theoretical and applied implications of these results are discussed.},
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author = {Doan, Lori A. and Martin, Toby L. and Yu, C.T. and Martin, Garry L.},
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journal = {Journal on Developmental Disabilities},
keywords = {2007 ABLA DD SARC choice discriminations},
number = 3,
pages = {1-11},
timestamp = {2009-03-31T15:12:21.000+0200},
title = {Do ABLA test results predict performance on three-choice discriminations for persons with developmental disabilities?},
url = {http://www.oadd.org/publications/journal/issues/vol13no3/doanEtAl.htm},
volume = 13,
year = 2007
}