Advantages of RISB
The general advantages of the sentence completion method can be summarized as follows
- There is freedom of response. That is, the subject is not forced to answer yes or no or? to the examiner question. He may instead, in any way he desires.
- Some disguise in the purpose of the test is present. Although the subject made aware of general intend, what constitutes a good or bad answer is not readily apparent to most subjects.
- Group administration is relatively efficient. Most incomplete sentences tests can be given to a group of any size without apparent loss of validity.
- No special training is ordinarily necessary for administration. Interpretation depends on the examiner’s general clinical experience, although the examiner does not need specific training in the use of this method.
- The method is extremely flexible in that new sentence beginnings can be constructed or tailor made for a variety of clinical, applied and experimental purposes
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