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Peer reviewedAlfonso, Vincent C.; Johnson, Annemarie; Patinella, Lilia; Rader, Damon E. – Psychology in the Schools, 1998
Examined 60 Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Third Education (WISC-III) protocols administered by graduate students in training to obtain preliminary data on the frequency and types of administration and scoring errors that examiners commit. The five most frequent errors included failure to query, failure to record response verbatim,…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Error of Measurement, Examiners, Females
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 reviewedSlate, John R.; Chick, David – Psychology in the Schools, 1989
Clinical psychology graduate students (N=14) administered Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised. Found numerous scoring and mechanical errors that influenced full-scale intelligence quotient scores on two-thirds of protocols. Particularly prone to error were Verbal subtests of Vocabulary, Comprehension, and Similarities. Noted specific…
Descriptors: Clinical Psychology, Error of Measurement, Examiners, Graduate Students
Peer reviewedConner, Robert; Woodall, Fred E. – Psychology in the Schools, 1983
Studied the effects of experience in administration and scoring of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (Revised) on types of examiner errors. Results showed total score and administrative error rates dropped significantly with experience and feedback, but response scoring errors, mathematical errors, and IQ errors were not reduced…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Examiners, Experience, Experimenter Characteristics
