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The One and the Many: Enduring Legacies of Spearman and Thurstone on Intelligence Test Score Interpretation
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Beaujean, A. Alexander; Benson, Nicholas F. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2019
Charles Spearman and L. L. Thurstone were pioneers in the field of intelligence. They not only developed methods to assess and understand intelligence, but also developed theories about its structure and function. Methodologically, their approaches were not that distinct, but their theories of intelligence were philosophically very different --…
Descriptors: Psychologists, Intelligence Tests, Scores, Theories
Test Review: Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence, Second Edition
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Irby, Sarah M.; Floyd, Randy G. – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2013
The Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence, Second Edition (WASI-II; Wechsler, 2011) is a brief intelligence test designed for individuals aged 6 through 90 years. It is a revision of the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI; Wechsler, 1999). During revision, there were three goals: enhancing the link between the Wechsler…
Descriptors: Test Reviews, Intelligence Tests, Psychometrics, Item Analysis
Theory and Research: The Nexus of Clinical Inference
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Claeys, Joseph – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2013
The practice of individual assessment has been moving toward the empirically derived Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory of intellectual ability, which offers a hierarchical taxonomy of cognitive abilities. Current assessment tools provide varying adherence to operationalizing CHC theory, making clinical inference difficult. Expert consensus…
Descriptors: Inferences, Intelligence Tests, Theories, Cognitive Ability
WAIS-IV and WISC-IV Structural Validity: Alternate Methods, Alternate Results. Commentary on Weiss et al. (2013a) and Weiss et al. (2013b)
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Canivez, Gary L.; Kush, Joseph C. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2013
Weiss, Keith, Zhu, and Chen (2013a) and Weiss, Keith, Zhu, and Chen (2013b), this issue, report examinations of the factor structure of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV) and Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth Edition (WISC-IV), respectively; comparing Wechsler Hierarchical Model (W-HM) and…
Descriptors: Intelligence Tests, Factor Structure, Comparative Analysis, Arithmetic
Equivalence of a Measurement Model of Cognitive Abilities in U.S. Standardization and Australian Neuroscience Samples
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Bowden, Stephen C.; Weiss, Lawrence G.; Holdnack, James A.; Bardenhagen, Fiona J.; Cook, Mark J. – Assessment, 2008
A psychological measurement model provides an explicit definition of (a) the theoretical and (b) the numerical relationships between observed scores and the latent variables that underlie the observed scores. Examination of the metric invariance of a measurement model involves testing the hypothesis that all components of the model relating…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Foreign Countries, Cognitive Ability, Scores