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Abdelhamid, Gomaa Said Mohamed; Gómez-Benito, Juana; Abdeltawwab, Ahmed Taha Mohamed; Abu Bakr, Mostafa Hafida Soliman; Kazem, Amina Mohamed – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2019
The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale--Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV) is one of the most well-known tests in the field of adult intelligence assessment. This study explores the validity of the Egyptian adaptation for the subscales of the WAIS-IV. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) indicated that the first-order, second-order, and bifactor models of both…
Descriptors: Intelligence Tests, Adults, Foreign Countries, Test Validity
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van Esch, Ankie Yvonne Maria; de Vries, Jolanda; Masthoff, Erik David Marco – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2020
Introduction: Intellectual disability is a key subject in all mental healthcare institutions, including the forensic mental health services. The Screener for Intelligence and Learning Disability (SCIL) is designed to screen for intellectual disability in forensic populations. So far, this assessment method is only validated in "detention fit…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Screening Tests, Disability Identification, Intellectual Disability
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Huang, Hung-Yu; Wang, Wen-Chung – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2013
Both testlet design and hierarchical latent traits are fairly common in educational and psychological measurements. This study aimed to develop a new class of higher order testlet response models that consider both local item dependence within testlets and a hierarchy of latent traits. Due to high dimensionality, the authors adopted the Bayesian…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Models, Bayesian Statistics, Computation
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Brown, Hilary S. R.; May, Arthur E. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1979
The test-retest IQs of 50 patients were correlated. The patients were included in the sample only because they had been given the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale before. The interval between test and retest averaged almost two years. All test-retest correlations were .90 or better. (Author)
Descriptors: Correlation, Followup Studies, Foreign Countries, Intelligence Tests
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Knight, Robert G. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1983
Discusses the significance of confidence intervals around IQ scores based on a misleading interpretation of the standard error of measurement terms provided in the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R) manual. Presents standard error values and a table for determining the abnormality of verbal and performance IQ discrepancies.…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Foreign Countries, Intelligence Tests, Test Interpretation