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The goal of this website is to share test information. More specifically to describe Risk & Needs tests, present their example reports and accurately share their research.
Time is an important variable in site development. Most visitors invest minutes in site exploration and move on. Some understand that tests vary considerably and that it may take some time to select a test that will optimally meet their needs. Visitors that know the name of the test they are interested in should go directly to the "Tests Alphabetically Listed" webpage, scroll down until they come to the test they are looking for, click on the tests name and go directly to that tests webpage. Early in each tests webpage are "convenience links" that can take you directly to that tests example report, or if preferred, directly to that tests research. Visitors willing to invest more time should read the entire test webpage. Other visitors won’t be looking for a particular test, rather-they will be searching for a test that can meet their needs.
Visitors searching for a test can begin their search on the "Tests Functionally Grouped" webpage, scroll down until they come to a "test utilization category" that is similar to their testing setting, e.g., juvenile or adult, court, probation, inmate, patient, etc. A test or tests are listed under each testing setting. Click on that tests name and go directly to that tests webpage, example report and research.
In summary the links "Tests Alphabetically Listed" and "Tests Functionally Grouped" are always available in the left margin of each webpage. The other links in the left margin of each webpage are always available as navigational links.
Visitors willing to invest a lot of time should find the site homepages (links are in each webpages left margin), test pages, example reports and research interesting. The site was developed by Risk & Needs Assessment, Inc. officers, psychologists and psychometrists who still find it informative and useful in their work.
Some evaluators use tests from the public domain, like the MAST. Others continue to use interviews like the SARA, ASI or LSI. These visitors interests may not warrant spending time on this website--but that’s OK! Evaluators (assessors, screeners or testers) interested in empirically based self-report tests should find this website interesting.
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lets you sort Risk & Needs tests the way you want to -- by name, purpose or function -- and identify the test you are searching for by cross matching test settings (testing place), test population (clients, offenders, inmates, patients), areas of inquiry (measures or scales) and research (statistical properties like reliability and validity).Scroll Articles are short vignettes that appear at the beginning of most webpages in scroll boxes. To review these scroll article headings click on the Scroll Articles link, which is also located at the end of each webpage.
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