The Paced Auditory Serial Addition Task (Pasat): Norms For Age, Education, And Ethnicity
- 1 December 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Assessment
- Vol. 5 (4) , 375-387
- https://doi.org/10.1177/107319119800500407
Abstract
The Paced Auditory Serial Addition Task (PASAT) is often used to measure attention, concentration, working memory, and speed of information processing. Using a modified 200-item version of the PASAT with presentation rates of 3.0, 2.4, 2.0, and 1.6 items per second, we analyzed demographic influences on test performance in a large sample (N = 566) of healthy North American adults. We found that age, education, and ethnicity were significant predictors, accounting for nearly 23% of the variance in test performance. We discuss these results in comparison to previous normative studies, and present a formula and tables for computing age, education, and ethnicity-adjusted T scores for performance on the PASAT-200.Keywords
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