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In all cases the person assessing capacity must understand the decision to be made and be able to provide all of the relevant information to be able to assess the person's ability to make the decision for themselves.
In order to make their own decision the person must be able to demonstrate their ability in all of the areas of the functional test. If the person is able to demonstrate ability in all areas, Stage 2 of the test does not need to be completed and they should be deemed to have capacity to make the decision.
Mr Garvey is a 40 year old man with a history of mental health problems. He sees a Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN) regularly. Mr Garvey decides to spend 2,000 of his savings on a camper van to travel around Scotland for 6 months. His CPN is concerned that it will be difficult to give Mr Garvey continuous support and treatment while travelling, and that his mental health might deteriorate as a result.
Sometimes there is clear evidence of the existence of an impairment or disturbance, for example there may be a medical diagnosis of Dementia or a learning disability. At other times evidence may be less clear.
If a person is unable to act upon a decision they have been assessed as having capacity to make, it could be that they actually lack capacity on the basis of their executive functioning. However, this conclusion should only ever be reached when there is clear evidence of a repeated mismatch between what the person says they will do and what they actually do. It is unlikely that a single mental capacity assessment will be able to reach this conclusion.
Where the decision to be made is specific or complex the Code of Practice requires you to make a proportionate formal record. The record must demonstrate that the statutory principles of the Act have been applied and each element of the functional test assessed.
People are referred to have a cognitive or neuropsychological assessment if they or their loved ones have concerns about their memory or other thinking skills, such as language, perception, reasoning, judgement, problem solving, reading or writing. These tests can't diagnose dementia on their own.
Cognitive tests are only one aspect of assessing brain functioning. If there is an indication that there is a problem, you may be referred to see a specialist and have further tests such as a brain scan.
There are a variety of tests to assess cognitive skills, from simple tests like the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), which was recently given to the President of the United States, to more complex tests such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS), or tests of memory, language, perception and so forth.
Some tests may not be suitable for people from non-English speaking backgrounds. Also, people with severe visual or motor impairment may find it hard to complete some aspects of the tests. However, a neuropsychologist would be able to adapt the tests so that people can still be assessed.
Here at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, we are currently working on new tests that can better assess active thinking processes, such as judgement, reasoning and problem solving.
Among the research work that has examined the validity of GMA, the meta-analyses of John E. Hunter occupy a special place. These meta-analyses were based on essentially the same dataset and the results were reported in several publications (Hunter, 1980, 1983a, 1986; Hunter and Hunter, 1984), with little differences and additions. His most cited publication was the article published in Psychological Bulletin (Hunter and Hunter, 1984), but some informative pieces appear in other reports and articles (e.g., Hunter, 1983a, 1986). Hunter carried out the first meta-analysis that examined the validity generalization evidence of the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), and this meta-analytic effort was made using the largest existing database of primary studies for a single battery. The GATB has been now renamed as Ability Profiler, Forms 1 and 2 (Mellon et al., 1996). The GATB (and the Ability Profiler) consists of 12 tests that assess General Learning Ability (G) and eight specific abilities, including Verbal (V), Numerical (N), Spatial (S), Form Perception (P), Clerical Perception (Q), Motor Coordination (K), Finger Dexterity (F), and Manual Dexterity (M). Table 1 describes the tests included in the GATB. For example, the G composite is created by the sum of vocabulary (test 4), arithmetic reasoning (test 6), and three-dimensional space (test 3); Verbal aptitude (V) is assessed with test 4; Spatial aptitude (S) is evaluated with test 3, and Numerical aptitude (N) is evaluated with test 2 (computation) and test 6 (arithmetic reasoning). Table 2 shows the correlations among the abilities measured by the GATB. The raw test scores are converted into standardized scores with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 20 for each of the GATB abilities. Although the GATB included a GMA composite (i.e., G or General Learning Ability), Hunter (1983a, 1986; Hunter and Hunter, 1984) created a second GMA composite summing up G, V, and N, and called this composite as GVN.
In order to conduct his meta-analyses and to correct the observed validities for criterion reliability and range restriction, Hunter (1980, Hunter, 1983a, 1986; Hunter and Hunter, 1984) assumed the values of 0.60 and 0.80 for the reliability of job proficiency and training, respectively. In addition, he empirically derived the distributions of range restriction based on the information provided by the validity studies. Both, the assumed reliability estimates were criticized by the NAS Panel (Hartigan and Wigdor, 1989) and the range restriction distributions were criticized on different reasons by Hartigan and Wigdor (1989) and Berry et al. (2014).
No meta-analyses tested the validity of the GMA, as assessed with the GATB, for the specific criteria, i.e., supervisory ratings, productions records, work sample tests, instructor ratings, and grades. Due to the differences among criteria, for instance, the differences in reliability, Tenopyr (2002) suggested that objective and subjective methods of job performance measurement should be considered separately in connection with the validity of GMA (see, for instance, AlDosiry et al., 2016, as an example of the use objective sales performance and subjective sales performance). It is important to remark that neither Hunter's meta-analyses nor other meta-analyses estimated empirically the reliability of the criteria used in the GATB studies, particularly, the interrater reliability of supervisory and instructor performance ratings. Moreover, there is another unexplored issue: the validity of the two alternative compounds of GMA mentioned above. Also, it remains unexamined whether job complexity moderates GMA validity similarly across the specific criteria.
Recently, new methodological advances on indirect range restriction (IRR) correction in meta-analysis methods have been applied to Hunter and Hunter's (1984) estimates of the validity of the GMA. Schmidt and his colleagues (Hunter et al., 2006; Schmidt et al., 2006, 2008) have developed a new method to correct for IRR that can be applied when it is not possible to apply Thorndike's (1949) Case III formula because some information is lacking. When Schmidt et al. (2008) re-analyzed Hunter and Hunter's (1984) estimates with the new IRR formula, they found an increment of around 20% on average in the magnitude of the GMA validity. For example, while Hunter and Hunter (1984; see also Hunter, 1986) reported operational validity coefficients of 0.56, 0.50, and 0.39 for high, medium, and low complexity jobs, respectively, Schmidt et al. (2008) reported operational validity coefficients of 0.68, 0.62, and 0.50, respectively. Thus, these last results suggest that GMA tests can be even better predictors than Hunter and Hunter (1984) findings showed.
A second point is related to the reliability of the criteria. There has been some debate regarding the appropriateness of interrater reliability of supervisor ratings (Murphy and De Shon, 2000; Schmidt et al., 2000; LeBreton et al., 2014; Sackett, 2014; Viswesvaran et al., 2014; Salgado et al., 2016). For example, the meta-analyses of Viswesvaran et al. (1996); Salgado et al. (2003), and Salgado and Tauriz (2014) found, with independent databases, that the average observed interrater reliability was 0.52, although the interrater reliability of job performance ratings in validity studies of personnel selection can be higher (around 0.64) in civilian occupations (Salgado and Moscoso, 1996). Nevertheless, even this higher interrater reliability is smaller than the reliability of frequently used objective performance measures, such as work samples, production records, and grades (Schmidt, 2002). For example, Hunter (1983b; see also Schmidt et al., 1986) found that the average reliability of work sample tests was 0.77 in eight occupations with a cumulative sample of 1,967 incumbents. With regard to production records, Hunter et al. (1990) found that the average reliability of output measures on non-piece-rate jobs was 0.55 for 1 week, 0.83 for 4 weeks, and 0.97 for 30 weeks. Judiesch and Schmidt (2000) found that the average reliability of output measures on piece-rate jobs was 0.80 for a week, 0.94 for 4 weeks, and it was practically perfect over 30 weeks. Salgado and Tauriz (2014) found an average reliability coefficient of 0.83 for production data, based on seven studies. Concerning to grades, Salgado and Tauriz (2014) found a reliability coefficient of 0.80 and, more recently, Beatty et al. (2015) found a reliability coefficient of 0.89. As a whole, this evidence shows that the supervisory performance ratings appear to be less reliable than the objective criteria. Therefore, independent meta-analyses using criteria type as a moderator variable seem to be advisable.
Research Question 1: Is the validity of the GMA composites the same for the various measures of job performance and training success? In other words, do GMA composites predict job performance ratings, production records, and work sample tests equally well? Do GMA composites predict grades and, instructor ratings equally well?
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