Detailed Description of Individual Measures
| Measure | Form of Administration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Alphabet Span (Craik, 1986) | Group | Participants are presented with a series of words. They are then required to write down the words in alphabetical order. |
| Attitudes Towards Computer Questionnaire (Jay & Willis, 1992) | Group | A 35-item scale that assesses eight dimensions of attitudes towards computers (comfort, efficacy, gender equality, control, interest, dehumanization, and utility). |
| California Verbal Learning Test–Delayed (Delis, Kramer, Kaplan, & Ober, 1987) | Group | Participants are asked to recall as many words as they remember from the original list after a 20-min delay. |
| California Verbal Learning Test–Immediate (Delis et al., 1987) | Group | Participants are presented with a list of words and asked to recall as many words as they remember. This is repeated for five trials. |
| Computation Span (Salthouse & Babcock, 1991) | Group | Participants are asked to solve arithmetic problems that are presented orally while simultaneously trying to remember the solution for each of the problems. |
| Computer Anxiety (Loyd & Gressard, 1984) | Group | A 10-item scale that assesses general anxiety and comfort toward computers. |
| Choice Reaction Time (Wilkie, Eisdorfer, Morgan, Loewenstein, & Szapocnik, 1990) | Individual (computer based) | Participants are required to respond to a stimulus, which appears on the screen (solid square), with their right or left hand, depending on the location of the stimulus. There are a total of 60 trials. |
| Cube Comparison Test (Ekstrom, French, Harman, & Dermen, 1976) | Group | A measure of spatial orientation wherein participants are required to identify whether two cubes are the same or different. |
| Digit Span (Wechsler, 1981) | Individual | Consists of two parts. In the first part, pairs of random-number sequences are read aloud, and the participants' task is to repeat each sequence. In the second part, participants are presented with a series of digits and asked to recall them in reverse order. |
| Digit Symbol Recall Test (Wechsler, 1981) | Group | After the standard Digit Symbol Substitution Test, participants are asked to recall the digit–symbol pairs from memory. |
| Digit Symbol Substitution Test (Wechsler, 1981) | Group | Participants are presented with a series of rows that pairs digits (1–9) with a nonsense symbol and are then required to fill in symbols below a row of digits. |
| Inference Test (Ekstrom et al., 1976) | Group | Participants are required to draw conclusions from information presented in statements. |
| Letter Sets (Ekstrom et al., 1976) | Group | Participants are required to determine which of four sets of letters is unrelated to the others. |
| Meaningful Memory (Institute for Personality and Ability Testing, 1982) | Group | Initially, participants are given a list of things to study. Following 20 min, participants are asked to pick from a list a word that means the same or about the same as the word that was described in the first list. |
| Multidimensional Aptitude Battery (Jackson, 1998) | Group | Participants are required to answer questions related to knowledge of diverse topics. |
| Nelson–Denney Reading Comprehension (Brown, Fischo, & Hanna, 1993) | Group | Participants are required to answer questions regarding the meaning of seven reading passages. |
| Number Comparison (Ekstrom et al., 1976) | Group | Participants are required to inspect pairs of multidigit numbers and then indicate whether the pairs are the same or different. |
| Paper Folding (Ekstrom et al., 1976) | Group | A measure of spatial visualization wherein participants are asked to visualize the folding and unfolding of pieces of paper. They are required to identify the figure being folded. |
| Self-Efficacy (Rodin & McAvay, 1992) | Group | An 8-item paper-and-pencil questionnaire that assesses general self-efficacy. |
| Shipley Vocabulary (Shipley, 1986) | Group | Participants are asked to circle the word that has the same meaning or most nearly the same meaning as a referent word. |
| Simple Reaction Time (Wilkie et al., 1990) | Individual (computer based) | Participants use their dominant hand to press the keyboard when the stimulus (blue box) appears. |
| Stroop Color Word Association Test (Golden, 1978) | Individual | Paper-and-pencil test. Participants are required to separate the color names of color words. |
| Technology and Computer/World Wide Web Experience Questionnaire (CREATE) | Group | A 14-item paper-and-pencil questionnaire that assesses use of technology and use/breadth of experience with computer technology and the World Wide Web. |
| Trail Making Test (Forms A and B; Reitan, 1958) | Individual | In Part A, participants draw lines to connect consecutively numbered circles. In Part B, participants draw lines to connect alternating numbered and lettered circles. |
| Information Subscale of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale–III (Wechsler, 1997) | Group | Participants are required to write down responses to questions about factual information that deals with general knowledge about common events, objects, places, and people. |