General Educational Development (GED) and Educational Attainment Equivalency for Demographically Adjusted Norms

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Objective: To investigate whether the General Educational Development (GED) certificate should be considered equivalent to a standard 12-year high school education when performing demographic corrections on neuropsychological performance levels. If the GED certificate and high school diploma reflect comparable levels of educational achievement, then performance on the Test of Premorbid Function (TOPF) and selected WAIS-IV indices should not differ between groups. Method: Archival neuropsychology data were reviewed to identify patients who either (1) did not complete high school and did not subsequently obtain a GED, (2) did not complete high school but subsequently obtained a GED, or (3) completed high school and did not obtain any further formal education. Most patients were programmatic referrals for epilepsy surgery evaluation, although referrals from the general neurology clinic were also included. The primary dependent measures were the TOPF and WAIS-IV Full Scale IQ (FSIQ). Results: High school graduates obtained higher scores on the TOPF (p

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Hewitt, K. C., Cody, M. W., Marker, C. D., & Loring, D. W. (2019). General Educational Development (GED) and Educational Attainment Equivalency for Demographically Adjusted Norms. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 34(8), 1340–1345. https://doi.org/10.1093/arclin/acz003

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