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Peer reviewedPeterson, Daniel; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1991
Analyzed for examiner errors 55 Wide Range Achievement Test-Revised (WRAT-R) protocols completed by 9 practitioners for metropolitan school district. All practitioners made errors, which occurred on 95 percent of protocols and averaged 3.0 errors per protocol. Most frequent errors included failures to obtain correct ceiling or basal, and failures…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education, Error of Measurement
Peer reviewedJanke, Robert W. – Psychology in the Schools, 1980
Examined computational errors made by educable mentally retarded students on the arithmetic subtest of the Wide Range Achievement Test. Retarded students had a lower percent of grouping and inappropriate inversion errors and a higher percent of incorrect operation errors than regular students had in Engelhardt's study. (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Educational Diagnosis, Error Patterns
Peer reviewedStewart, Krista J. – Psychology in the Schools, 1987
Evaluated the technical aspects of three Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) administrations of five psychology graduate students using the WISC-R Administration Observational Checklist (WAOC) to evaluate interrater agreement. Students performed significantly better on the second than on the first observation, with…
Descriptors: Educational Diagnosis, Error Patterns, Examiners, Graduate Students
