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Peer reviewedYater, Allan C.; And Others – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Disadvantaged Youth, Intelligence Tests, Measurement Instruments
Bart, William M.; Lele, Kaustubh – 1977
One hundred eighty one sets of black twins and 223 sets of white twins provided responses to four 12-item subtests of the Raven's Progressive Matrices Test, Standard Version. The children were in elementary school and their item response patterns were analyzed with the use of revised ordering-theoretic methods to search for best-fitting…
Descriptors: Black Students, Comparative Testing, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Jensen, Arthur R. – 1978
Charles Spearman originally suggested in 1927 that the varying magnitudes of the mean differences between whites and blacks in standardized scores on a variety of mental tests are directly related to the size of the tests' loadings on g, the general factor common to all complex tests of mental ability. Several independent large-scale studies…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Culture Fair Tests, Factor Structure, Intelligence
Peer reviewedMcCallum, R. Steve; Bracken, Bruce A. – Psychology in the Schools, 1981
Compared alternate forms of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised for (N=72) preschool children. Results indicated differences between Form L and Form M mean scores were nonsignificant for Whites, males, females, and the total group. For Black preschoolers, Form L was apparently more difficult to complete successfully than Form M. (Author)
Descriptors: Black Youth, Comparative Testing, Intelligence Tests, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedNaglieri, Jack A.; Jensen, Arthur R. – Intelligence, 1987
The Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) and the Wechsler Intelligence for Children-Revised (WISC-R) were compared with respect to the magnitudes of the average White-Black differences in standardized scaled scores and in raw scores. Subjects were 172 fourth- and fifth-grade children matched in Black-White pairs. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Blacks, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Testing, Grade 4
Peer reviewedWhitworth, Randolph H.; Gibbons, Ruth T. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1986
A cross-racial comparison of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) was made with the revised version, the WAIS-R. Three groups of Anglo, Black, and Mexican-American male college students were administered both versions of the WAIS on the same day. Significant differences were found among the racial groups. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Anglo Americans, Blacks, Comparative Testing
Download full textReynolds, 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
