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Evidence That Practitioners Err in Administering and Scoring the WAIS-R.
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Slate, John R.; And Others – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1993
Conducted study to examine whether practitioners err in administering and scoring Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R). Obtained WAIS-R protocols from 50 randomly selected psychological folders in records of 1 school district. Found that practitioners committed errors on all 50 protocols. Errors on 27 of 50 protocols were sufficient…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Examiners, Intelligence Tests, Scoring
Examiner Disability and Other Bias Sources in Administration of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale--Revised.
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Voskuil, Susan; Tucker, Inez A. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1987
To examine participant and examiner bias, graduate students posing as disabled examiners in a wheelchair administered the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - Revised to 101 nondisabled college students. In terms of bias operating to influence subtest scores, only participant gender had a significant effect. Men scored higher than women on both the…
Descriptors: College Students, Disabilities, Examiners, Experimenter Characteristics