Test Critique
Test Critique
General Information
Theodore Million, Carrie Million, Roger Davis, and Seth Grossman wrote Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI) and Pearson published it in 1993. The second edition has been available since 2006. Starting kit is $125, includes MACI manual and answer sheets: all materials necessary to conduct 3 assignments and receive interpretive reports using the mail-in scoring services. The manual alone is $45.50 (Pearson, 2015). The Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI) was first established specifically for teens between the ages of 13 to 19 to evaluate and address concerns, demands, and conditions that teens face. The MACI is an objective test, respondents must decide what the terms often, sometimes, and so forth mean to them. Although the clinician, as an observer, would set the threshold at one point, the respondent may choose a very dissimilar point (Strack, 2008).
The MACI is more of a personality test because it is a inventory that assesses personality patterns. Since the focus of the MACI is on clinical …show more content…
For revisions or updates The MACI could use an updated version of itself, being that it was created in 1993. The MACI is also the only self-report inventory that assesses personality inventories of adolescents so it has nothing to compare to. This is a strength that the test possesses but it can also be a weakness. The self-report does not have a standard it is trying to meet. Since the MACI was created, there has not been much research done to critique it. The updated version should be able to assess severe pathologies, which include, psychotic disorders and bipolar disorder. If someone has a severe disorder and it had not been detected in an interview or observation. It would not be detected through this inventory either, due to the fact it does not assess for severe mental
General Information
Theodore Million, Carrie Million, Roger Davis, and Seth Grossman wrote Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI) and Pearson published it in 1993. The second edition has been available since 2006. Starting kit is $125, includes MACI manual and answer sheets: all materials necessary to conduct 3 assignments and receive interpretive reports using the mail-in scoring services. The manual alone is $45.50 (Pearson, 2015). The Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI) was first established specifically for teens between the ages of 13 to 19 to evaluate and address concerns, demands, and conditions that teens face. The MACI is an objective test, respondents must decide what the terms often, sometimes, and so forth mean to them. Although the clinician, as an observer, would set the threshold at one point, the respondent may choose a very dissimilar point (Strack, 2008).
The MACI is more of a personality test because it is a inventory that assesses personality patterns. Since the focus of the MACI is on clinical …show more content…
For revisions or updates The MACI could use an updated version of itself, being that it was created in 1993. The MACI is also the only self-report inventory that assesses personality inventories of adolescents so it has nothing to compare to. This is a strength that the test possesses but it can also be a weakness. The self-report does not have a standard it is trying to meet. Since the MACI was created, there has not been much research done to critique it. The updated version should be able to assess severe pathologies, which include, psychotic disorders and bipolar disorder. If someone has a severe disorder and it had not been detected in an interview or observation. It would not be detected through this inventory either, due to the fact it does not assess for severe mental