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A Comparison of Educably Mentally Retarded Students' Brigance, PIAT, and WRAT Achievement Scores.
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Lindsey, Jimmy D. – Journal for Special Educators, 1983
Educable mentally retarded (N=220) elementary and secondary students were administered Inventory of Basic Skills or the Inventory of Essential Skills (Brigance), The Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT), and the Wide Range Achieve Test (WRAT). Results suggested that the Brigance measures do not replace the PIAT and WRAT. (CL)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Mild Mental Retardation, Test Use
An Analysis of Performance on Reading Subtests from the 1978 Wide Range Achievement Test and Woodcock Reading Mastery Test with the WISC-R for Learning Disabled and Regular Education Students.
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Prasse, David P.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1983
Findings revealed that 63 learning disabled students scored significantly lower than 30 regular education students (both groups 6-15 years old) on all reading measures. Existing differences in the reading ability level between the two groups did not solely account for the obtained difference in reading achievement. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Reading Achievement, Reading Tests
Test-Retest Stability and Concurrent Validity of Two Reading Tests with a Drug-Abusing Population.
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Johnson, Mark E.; Fisher, Dennis G.; Rhodes, Fen; Booth, Robert – Assessment, 1996
The Wide Range Achievement Test-Revised and the Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests-Revised were administered twice to 269 current drug abusers over an average time interval of 204.2 days. Overall, the study demonstrates that the two instruments have strong psychometric properties and that results from current drug abusers are reliable. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adults, Concurrent Validity, Drug Abuse, Psychometrics
Relationship Between Quick Test and WISC-R and Reading Ability as Used in a Juvenile Setting.
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Paramesh, C. R. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
When administered to 87 boys and 53 girls in screening procedures, significant score correlations between Quick Test and Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised intelligence quotients and between the Wide Range Achievement Test Reading scores indicated that Quick Test is an effective tool for making valid brief estimates of intelligence.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Correctional Rehabilitation, Correlation, Delinquency
Memory-for-Designs, Intelligence, and Achievement of Educable Mentally Retarded Children.
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Ong, Jin; Jones, Lowell, Jr. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
Rank-difference correlations between Memory-for-Designs test, Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC), and Wide Range Achievement Test scores for two classes of educable mentally retarded children showed high negative correlations between Memory-for-Designs and WISC Full Scale IQs. Visual memory accounted for 84 percent of variance in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Correlation, Elementary Education