Computer-Generated Test Interpretation in Custody Matters

hat is Computer-Generated Test Interpretation (CGTI)? There was a time when psychologists scored test results the old-fashioned way: by hand. Test-takers filled in dots on a sheet, choosing their responses to various questions posed by such tests as the MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) or the MCMI (Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory). Then the psychologist, taking on a tedious and lengthy task, laid plastic scoring templates for a long list of scales and sub-scales over the answer sheet, counting true and false responses to yield raw scores. This long list of scores was then used to find “standard scores” using tomes filled with tables of numbers. The clinician then sat back and, using various treatises and clinical experience, developed interpretations of the results with respect to the test-takers personality traits, abilities or dispositions.