Parallel short forms for the Boston Naming Test: Psychometric properties and norms for older adults

Four 15-item and two 30-item short forms for the Boston Naming Test were va lidated using 108 non-neurological community-dwelling adults, ages 57-85. A ll forms were administered to all participants (counterbalanced), with no e ffect of administration sequence on any score. An age effect emerged (Multi ple R =.28, p less than or equal to.01). No effects for education or gender were found, nor were there any interactions (p greater than or equal to.10 ). Descriptive data are stratified by age group. Reliability and validity f or each form were demonstrated in several ways. These short forms should be very useful as screening instruments and/or as alternate forms for the BNT in test-retest clinical protocols, pre-post experimental designs, and long itudinal research.