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A Comparison of the WRAT and the PIAT with Learning Disability Children
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Baum, Dale D. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1975
In view of the high degree of correlation between the two instruments, findings suggest that the utility of the Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT) as a wide-range achievement test is at least as promising as the Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT) has been. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Learning Disabilities
The Concurrent Validity of the Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests Relative to the Peabody Individual Achievement Test Among Retarded Adolescents.
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Simpson, Robert G.; Eaves, Ronald C. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1983
The presence of relatively high and positive partial correlations between appropriate subtest scores for 56 mildly retarded adolescents supported the concurrent validity of the Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests relative to the Peabody Individual Achievement Test and to criterion variables. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Adolescents, Correlation
A Public School Validation Study of the Achievement Sections of the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery with Learning Disabled Students.
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Beden, Ione; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1987
Thirty elementary students referred for possible learning disability were administered the achievement sections of the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery and several traditionally used school district tests. Identical student placement decisions were reached on 23 out of 30 students. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Ability, Concurrent Validity, Diagnostic Tests
Correlation Between the General Information Subtest of the Peabody Individual Achievement Test and the Full Scale Intelligence Quotient of the WISC-R.
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Simpson, Robert G. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1982
The usefulness of the Peabody Individual Achievement Test General Information subtest as a general screening instrument with non-retarded subjects is shown in a study of concurrent validity between the subtest and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised. Correlations between the instruments in two intelligence groups are discussed.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adolescents, Correlation, Educational Diagnosis
Differences in Factor Structures of Cognitive Functioning of Learning Disabled (LD) and Emotionally Handicapped (EH) Children.
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Mason, Elizabeth M.; Wenck, L. Stanley – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1989
Cognitive differences between 987 LD children and 178 EH children in public schools on a psychoeducational assessment battery were studied, and differences in factor structure were investigated. Caution is suggested in interpreting the results of multivariate statistical analyses, which indicated heterogeneity in the matrices of LD and EH…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Testing, Educational Assessment