title: A Japanese short form of the Swanson Cognitive Processing Test to measure working memory: reliability, validity, and differences in scores between primary school children of the United States and Japan.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of a Japanese short form of the Swanson Cognitive Processing Test, which assesses capacity of working memory. Test-retest reliability was acceptable (r = .76). Concurrent validity was suggested through comparison of scores on the Reading Span Task (r = .55). Means on the Japanese short form were comparable with means for the 3 subtests for the older group and 2 subtests for the younger group. With the exception of the Auditory Digit Sequence, results suggested that both the Japanese short form and the initial Swanson Cognitive Processing Test measured comparably the working memory in the two samples of children.
authors.affiliation: Special Support Education Research Center, Tohoku Fukushi University, 1-8-1 Kunimi, Aoba Ward, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan 981-8522. Yeonhee70@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Yeonhee
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hwang
authors.forename: Toru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hosokawa
authors.forename: H Lee
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Swanson
authors.forename: Ikuyo
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ishizaka
authors.forename: Noriyuki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kifune
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ohira
authors.forename: Tomio
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ota
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003071:Cognition; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011932:Reading; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014481:United States