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The Driver Risk Inventory-II, or DRI-II, is recog-nized by the DUI/DWI offender assessment community as the best DUI/DWI offender screening or assessment test. Yet, there are settings in which the DRI-II Short Form is helpful. In other words, Risk & Needs Assessment, Inc. (Risk & Needs) wants to meet the needs of the entire DUI/DWI offender assessment community.

Some courts, DUI/DWI offender agencies and health care professionals do high volume DUI/ DWI offender testing. In many of these settings, staff time (administration, scoring, and printing of reports) is of particular concern. The DRI-II Short Form reduces these times by 35 to 50 percent.

Some courts now mandate DUI/DWI offender assessment and treatment, as warranted. Oth-ers offer diversion programs. Large numbers of offenders are usually involved in these pro-grams. The DRI-II and the DRI-II Short Form help meet many of these assessment needs.

Approximately 20+ percent of DUI/DWI offend-ers are reading impaired (not illiterate). In many of these reading impaired situations, a shorter test is desirable. The DRI-II Short Form has been read to groups of reading impaired DUI/DWI offenders in a reasonable test administration time.

Many DUI/DWI offender evaluators want a quality test with demonstrated reliability and validity.  And, a DRI-II retest instrument (or alternative test) must also be reliable, valid and accurate.  They don't want to use the MAST or other inferior tests.  DRI-II Short Form scales correlate highly significantly with comparable DRI-II scales.  Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficients between DRI-II and comparable DRI-II Short Form scales are: Truthfulness (.96), Alcohol (.98), Drugs (.97) and Driver Risk (.93).  These correlations are very high, demonstrating that these comparable scales measure essentially the same thing.  A correlation coefficient of 1.0 refers to a perfect relationship or correlation.

Risk & Needs' focus group of DUI/DWI offender evaluators expressed a preference for the DRI-II, but identified situations (cited above) that warranted consideration of the DRI-II Short Form. In response to the hypothetical "If you had to choose a short form test as an alternative to the DRI-II, what would you select?", ninety-five percent chose the DRI-II Short Form, three percent were undecided and two percent didn’t want to use a short form.
 

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