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Peer reviewedSpruill, Jean; Beck, Brett – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1986
This study is a concurrent validation of Level II of the Wide Range Achievement Test-Revised (WRAT-R) using the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) Verbal, Performance, and Full Scale IQ scores as criterion measures. Forty-five subjects were administered the WAIS-R and WRAT-R and their scores correlated. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adults, Comparative Testing, Concurrent Validity
Peer reviewedNaglieri, Jack A. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1980
Relationships between the McCarthy General Cognitive Index and WISC-R Full Scale IQ with the Wide Range Achievement reading scores were explored with a sample of 20 educable mentally retarded and 20 learning disabled children, ages six to nine. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing, Correlation, Intelligence Tests
Peer reviewedSinger, Marc G.; And Others – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1983
Investigated the concurrent validity of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (Revised) subtests and three IQs compared to Wide Range Achievement Test standard scores, in 28 learning-disabled children. Analysis showed no significant correlations between WISC-R and WRAT scores, indicating a lack of concurrent validity on the WAIS-R. (WAS)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Comparative Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedIvimey, John K.; Taylor, Ronald L. – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1980
Demonstrates the need for schools to clearly define diagnostic categories such as learning disabilities (LD). These LD students were considerably different from LD students in other studies. They performed on grade level according to the Wide Range Achievement Test, but significantly below their peers in actual classroom performance. (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Children, Clinical Diagnosis, Comparative Testing
Peer reviewedSattler, Jerome M.; Ryan, Joseph J. – Psychology in the Schools, 1981
Results indicate that the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (Revised) is a valid predictor of achievement for children referred for learning disabilities. The verbal Scale IQ, and the Freedom from Distractibility IQ proved especially useful predictors of academic achievement. (JAC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement, Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing
Download full textHollingshead, Maybelle Clayton; Clayton, Charles – 1971
The investigation examined the "Wide Range Achievement Test" (WRAT) and its subtests (spelling, reading, and arithmetic), as well as possible differences attributable to the factors of sex, with the "Chicago Non-Verbal" (CNV) as a criterion variable. The 1970 study encompassed 72 Indian students (with a mean chronological age…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, American Indians, Arithmetic
Reynolds, Cecil R.; Hartlage, Lawrence C. – 1978
Regression lines for the prediction of Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT) scores by Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) and WISC Revised (WISC-R) intelligence quotients were compared across race, by the Potoff technique. Subjects were 36 black and 30 white children who were referred for psychological evaluation because of learning or…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Black Students, Comparative Testing
