THE WASHINGTON-UNIVERSITY SENTENCE COMPLETE TEST - ARE THE 2 HALVES ALTERNATE FORMS - ARE THE FEMALE AND MALE FORMS COMPARABLE

Evidence from 85 adult medical outpatients supported psychometric comp arability of the 2 halves of the Washington University Sentence Comple tion Test (SCT) Form 81 and of the female and male forms of the SCT. T here was slightly stronger internal consistency for the first versus t he second half of the SCT. Each half correlated highly with the ogive total protocol rating and 36-item-sum rating. Intercorrelations of the 2 halves with external measures also suggested essentially equivalent relations. For the 30 identical items across gender, the median corre lation between individual item ratings with the item-sum ratings was n early equal for women and men. When the 6 nonidentical items were cons idered with the identical items, the median item-total correlation was slightly higher for men (.45) than women (.41). This difference was a ccounted for by the slightly larger variability in the male subsample. Practically speaking, the 2 halves and the female and male forms may be used with minimal concern regarding psychometric comparability in s imilar medical outpatient settings.