Test Number |
14 |
Title |
Comprehensive Ability Battery |
Author |
Hakstain, R. A.; Cattell, R. B. |
Category |
Test |
Copyright Date |
1982 |
Availability |
Contact publisher |
Restrictions |
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Age/Grade Level |
Age 15-adult |
Cost |
As of 1999: $22 per 10 test booklets; $15 per 50 answer sheets. Other costs listed. |
Forms |
Foreign language editions available |
Source |
Institute for Personality and Ability Testing |
Address |
1602 Coronado Drive, P. O. Box 188 Champaign, IL 61820 |
Phone |
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Fax |
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web or e-mail |
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Definition |
Among the constructs measured are: spontaneous, flexibility, ideational fluency, word fluency, and originality. |
Purposes |
Designed to provide a broad battery of short tests, so as to provide investigators with an economical vehicle for assessing a wide range of important ability constructs. There are 20 tests, test 5 is concerned with creativity. |
Characteristics |
Generating Ideas |
Manual |
Good |
The manual discusses the instrument’s history and development as well as: its definition and purposes, theoretical rational, and validity and reliability evidence. Norms are discussed with little information about the normative group of over 2000 high sch |
Validity |
Fair |
Only a discussion of face validity is offered. Little evidence is given for the validity of the subtests. Correlations with grades is .63. |
Reliability |
Fair |
Reliabilities are variable on CAB-5 .43 to .87. There is some indication of inflation on several CAB sub-tests. |
Utility |
Fair |
CAB-5 can be administered by any professional to groups. It is timed and takes about 1 hour with instructions. It is scored locally by hand. Answers are placed in the test book. Items call for verbal and drawing responses. Scoring instructions are confused. |
Interpretation |
Fair |
Standard Errors of Measure are reported but other score interpretation information is lacking. |
Propriety |
Poor |
Not addressed in the manual. |
Reviews & Related Lit |
TiP V, 1999; MMY #9, 1985: Nichols, R C. states that the manual is greatly in need of revision. White, K. R. “ From the data that are available, some of the subtests included in the CAB are not well established ...most reliability estimates are inappropriate for speeded tests ... and validity data are sparse and sometimes logically inconsistent. If additional data were collected, many of these problems might be solved.” |
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