ADAPTATION OF REY AUDITORY VERBAL LEARNING TESTFOR INDONESIA: ITS VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY

Abstract

Rey’s Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT) assesses different as- pects of verbal memory and learning. This test is often used in clinical, educational, and selection contexts. We adapted the Geffen et al’ ver- sion for Indonesia and here we present sychometric properties. We tested the validity via its seven recall trials (A1 to A7), based on theore- tical constructs (e.g. the presence and recency effect) via analyses of variance and factor analyses and the test’s reliability via e.g. correlation analyses and Cronbach’s alpha. The objective of the research was to study the psychometric properties of Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test which were adapted from Geffen et al’s to Indonesian version.Two groups of healthy participants with varying ages (16-80) and edu- cation (from Elementary school to postgraduate alumni) included 492 persons for the validation, and 50 for the test-retest reliability part of the study with a 6–14-day interval. We tested the validity via its seven recall trials, based on theoretical constructs, and factor analyses. The test’s reliability via Cronbach’s alpha test, and test-retest.The recall scores increased over trials A1 to A5. The expected position effect, primacy, and recency were found for A1 to A5. Factor analysis that the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test revealed three memory con- structs. The word “ibu (mother)” caused an anomaly in the position effect of the 15 words. Both Cronbach’s Alpha and the test-retest corre lations increased from low A1 to satisfying A7. Carry-over results were found in the retest.The Indonesian version of the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test is valid based on the recall related to the position of the words, the three clusters describing the memory of all seven trials. The score of relia- bility is only moderate for the recall score, it might be due to the test- retest procedure.