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Purpose
Measures everyday memory, learning, and executive aspects of memory
Authors
Elisabeth M. S. Sherman, PhD, and Brian L. Brooks, PhD
Administration Formats
Additional Details
Everyday Memory Test that Incorporates Perspectives from Multiple Raters
The MEMRY is the first and only nationally standardized rating scale specifically designed to measure everyday memory in children, adolescents, and young adults. It measures daily memory, learning, and executive aspects of memory, including working memory. Allows clinicians to differentiate between problems caused by memory failures versus failures due to problems with working memory and attention, a common referral question.
Everyday memory is facilitated by semantic associations, environmental cues, and emotional saliency, and occurs alongside normal distractions. This is unlike the highly controlled testing environment presented in most objective memory tests, making the MEMRY more true to real-life situations.
Features and benefits
- Provides rapid screening for memory problems in youth and can be used to determine whether a more comprehensive evaluation is required or as a core component of a comprehensive assessment.
- Provides ecologically relevant assessment of memory in everyday life.
- Features parent and teacher report forms (for ages 5–19 years) and self-report forms (for ages 9–21 years) to provide multiple perspectives about memory capacity from different raters.
- Allows for the evaluation and quantification of real-world functional memory problems that can't be elicited in testing alone.
- Three different validity scales (Implausibility, Inconsistency, and Maximizing) make the MEMRY ideal for clinical use.
- Offers an inexpensive, quick, and easy measure to integrate into busy clinical settings as a screening or as a core component of a comprehensive assessment.
- Helps clinicians understand the impact of memory problems on daily functioning.
- Provides intervention recommendations based on MEMRY scores.
- Conormed with the Child and Adolescent Memory Profile (ChAMP) and the Memory Validity Profile (MVP).
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FAQs
What is the technical information for the MEMRY™?
Test structure
- Includes an overall score, the Everyday Memory Index (EMI), as well as scales that tap learning, daily memory, and executive/working memory and three validity scales (Implausibility, Inconsistency, and Maximizing).
- Paper-and-pencil administration can be completed quickly; online administration and scoring are available on PARiConnect.
Administration
- Features Parent, Teacher, and Self-Report forms.
- Administer with paper and pencil.
- Administer in 5 minutes.
- Qualification level B.
Scoring and Reporting
- Score in 5 minutes.
- Includes an overall score, the Everyday Memory Index (EMI), as well as scales that tap learning, daily memory, and executive/working memory and three validity scales.
- Provides intervention recommendations based on MEMRY scores.
- Scale scores include T scores, confidence intervals, and percentiles.
- Discrepancy scores allow for comparison between scale scores
Reliability, Validity, & Norms
- Scale scores include T scores, confidence intervals, and percentiles.
- Validity scales are designed to flag protocols that are likely to reflect inconsistent, exaggerated, or implausible responses and include sophisticated validity indicators designed to detect exaggeration and feigning.
- Normative sample included 845 youth, 450 teachers, and 1,080 parents and was closely approximated to the 2012 U.S. Census in terms of age, gender, and ethnicity.
- Clinical group analyses were conducted with ADHD, ASD, reading disability, math disability, language disability, traumatic brain injury, and intellectual disability groups. These clinical group analyses provided solid evidence for the validity of the MEMRY in helping identify memory problems in youth with clinical diagnoses.
- Examination of both the standardization and clinical sample alphas indicates good internal reliability for the EMI and the three scales for all three forms.
- Strong correlations were found between the MEMRY EMI and performance on objective memory tests (i.e., ChAMP, TOMAL-2, CVLT-C, RCFT), particularly on the Parent and Teacher forms. Additional correlational analyses compared the MEMRY with the WISC-IV, AAB, FAR, and BRIEF.
- Conormed with the Child and Adolescent Memory Profile (ChAMP) and the Memory Validity Profile (MVP).
When should I use the MEMRY™, ChAMP™, and the MVP?
How does the fact that the ChAMP™ is conormed with the Memory Validity Profile™ (MVP) and the Multidimensional Everyday Memory Ratings for Youth™ (MEMRY™) help the practitioner? In what circumstance(s) would these all be used together?
Each component provides additional information about a child’s memory abilities, and conorming means that all three were standardized on the same large, representative sample. The ChAMP™ is a performance-based memory test with an embedded performance validity indicator and the MVP is a standalone performance validity test. The three forms of the MEMRY allow the student, parent, and teacher to provide their subjective ratings of the child’s real-world memory performance, and it also includes symptom validity scales. Together, these contribute to building a best-practice battery that includes at least two validity metrics. Either the ChAMP™ or MEMRY could be used in screening for memory problems, and the three together form a valuable segment of a comprehensive neuropsychological or psychoeducational evaluation.
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