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Intelligent Testing with Wechsler’s Fourth Editions: Perspectives on the Weiss et al. Studies and the Eight Commentaries
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Kaufman, Alan S. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2013
The two featured articles and eight commentaries on the WISC-IV (Wechsler, 2003) and WAIS-IV (Wechsler, 2008) in this special issue of "Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment" are of exceptional quality. As a collective, this special issue greatly advances the field of cognitive assessment by intelligently synthesizing the best of…
Descriptors: Intelligence Tests, Intelligence Quotient, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement
Are We Getting Smarter? Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century
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Flynn, James R. – Cambridge University Press, 2012
The "Flynn effect" is a surprising finding, identified by James R. Flynn, that IQ test scores have significantly increased from one generation to the next over the past century. Flynn now brings us an exciting new book which aims to make sense of this rise in IQ scores and considers what this tells us about our intelligence, our minds…
Descriptors: Intelligence Tests, Cognitive Ability, Intelligence, Older Adults
The Spectacles through Which I See the Race and IQ Debate
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Flynn, James R. – Intelligence, 2010
The ranking of Wechsler subtests in terms of their "g" loadings is equivalent to ranking them in terms of the cognitive complexity of the tasks measured. Lower performing groups do not always fall behind higher performing groups the more complex the task. But that is the general rule, no matter whether the cause of the lower performance…
Descriptors: Intelligence Quotient, Genetics, Intelligence Tests, Race