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).

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.