Call for Research
Purpose
This annual Research Call is published by Pearson Clinical Assessment. Our mission is to ensure that our assessments comply with the highest standards of quality and improve outcomes for the customers we serve. The purpose of the Research Call is to obtain independent research that contributes to the validation and efficacy of Pearson Clinical Assessment products and offerings.
Who can apply
We invite faculty members, graduate students, and qualified researchers based in the United States to submit proposals of relevance to the research areas outlined below.
2022 Research areas
- Clinical validity
Proposals evaluating the clinical validity of one or more Pearson Clinical Assessment products.
For example, conducting a clinical study for a test with a special population not reported in the test’s manual. - Efficacy
Proposals investigating the use of Pearson Clinical Assessment products or offerings to improve outcomes for intended groups or settings.
Examples of groups and settings include practitioners/clients or special populations in schools or clinics. - Equitable Use
Proposals investigating the use of Pearson Clinical Assessment products with a special population.
Special populations include underrepresented, unaccounted for in the normative samples, or excluded from the normative samples. - Equivalence studies
Proposals investigating the equivalence and reliability of Pearson Clinical Assessment products administered under nonstandard administration conditions
Examples of non-standard conditions include telepractice and language translations.
Data, funding, and duration of projects
Pearson will provide researchers with Pearson Clinical Assessment test data (e.g., standardization data) and/or product materials, if required by the research proposal.
Funding is available for one or more research projects and the amount of each award will be based on the scope and required budget of the accepted proposals. Indirect costs for overhead may not exceed 6 percent of the project’s funding request.
Questions regarding the application can be sent to CallForResearch@pearson.com.
2022 Awardees
Factor Analysis of Processing Speed Measures in a Sample of Normative and Clinically-Referred Children
Submitted by: Rachel K. Peterson, PhD,& Lisa A. Jacobson, PhD, ABPP-CN at the Kennedy-Kreiger Institute and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Assessing the predictive validity of autism indicator items on the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development in (N=600) high risk children
Submitted by: Jennifer Amato, PsyD., Nina Sand-Loud, MD., Jonathan Lichtenstein, PsyD., MBA; Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Development of Novel Embedded Validity Tests (EVTs) within the WMS-4 Logical Memory Subtest
Submitted by: Ben K. Mokhtari, MS, graduate student at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Mentors: Laura Lacritz, Ph.D., ABPP; Caitlin Reese, Ph.D; .Jeff Schaffert, Ph.D; Richard Robinson, Ph.D.; Shawn McClintock, Ph.D.
