Examiner Disability and Other Bias Sources in Administration of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale--Revised.

Voskuil, Susan; Tucker, Inez A.

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Publication Date: 1987

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Examiner Disability and Other Bias Sources in Administration of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale--Revised.

Voskuil, Susan; Tucker, Inez A.

Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, v20 n2 p89-96 Jul 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 Arithmetic and the Picture Completion subtests. (Author/NB)

Descriptors: College Students, Disabilities, Examiners, Experimenter Characteristics, Higher Education, Intelligence Tests, Sex Differences, Social Bias, Testing

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

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