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Sawyer, Robert N.; Pasewark, Richard A. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1972
Split-half reliability, test-retest reliability, and concurrent validity, with the WISC as a criterion of the Long and Short Forms of the French Pictorial Test of Intelligence, were compared, using kindergarten and second grade samples. Reliability and validity coefficients for The Short Form did not differ significantly from the Long Form.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Intelligence Quotient, Intelligence Tests, Performance Tests
Avant, Anna H. – 1985
The stability of intelligence test scores over time was examined for the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R). Subjects included 64 children aged 6-16, who had been administered the WISC-R during prior evaluations. These students had been referred because of academic difficulties. One-third of the sample had taken the test…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Intelligence Quotient, Intelligence Tests, Learning Problems
ROSENBERG, LEON A. – 1966
THE JOHNS HOPKINS PERCEPTUAL TEST (JHPT), REVIEWED IN THIS PAPER, WAS DESIGNED TO MEET THE NEED FOR A BRIEF, EASILY ADMINISTERED, NON-VERBAL INSTRUMENT TO ASSESS THE INTELLECTUAL FUNCTIONING OF CHILDREN. THE DATA ON THIS INSTRUMENT INDICATES THAT IT IS RELATIVELY CULTURE FAIR AND USEFUL FOR TESTING CHILDREN WHOSE PHYSICAL HANDICAPS PRECLUDE THE…
Descriptors: Correlation, Culture Fair Tests, Intelligence Tests, Measurement
Hannon, John E.; Kicklighter, Richard – 1968
This study was designed to compare the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) IQ scores (Full Scale, Verbal, and Performance) of 120 16-year-olds, controlling for both practice or order effects and for intellectual level. Each test was administered to each subject, with an average interest…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, High School Students, Intelligence, Intelligence Tests
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Hirshoren, Alfred; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1977
The Performance Scale of the WISC-R was administered to 59 prelingually deaf children attending a state-supported day school program. The results compare favorably with those found by Wechsler with the standardization sample. (Author)
Descriptors: Deafness, Exceptional Child Research, Group Testing, Intelligence Tests
Buckhalt, Joseph A. – Diagnostique, 1990
The Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence-Revised, intended for children ages 3-7, is used to diagnosis exceptional intellectual ability in school settings. Its 12 subtests measure both Performance Intelligence Quotient and Verbal Intelligence Quotient. This paper describes the test's administration, summation of data,…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Diagnostic Tests, Gifted, Handicap Identification
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Cahan, Sorel; Gejman, Alicia – Roeper Review, 1993
The constancy of intelligence quotients (IQs) of 161 gifted Israeli children, obtained initially in grades K-4 and retested 1-4 years later, was examined. Results indicated that 86% still qualified as gifted on the retest, with mean differences of five to eight IQ points. Performance scores tended to remain constant, whereas verbal scores tended…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Gifted
Boland, Lyn – Psychological Test Bulletin, 1990
The theoretical background, organization, performance subtests (object assembly, geometric design, block design, mazes, picture completion, and animal pegs), verbal subtests (information, comprehension, arithmetic, vocabulary, similarities, and sentences), reliability, validity (factor analysis), interpretation, advantages, and limitations of the…
Descriptors: Intelligence Tests, Performance Tests, Preschool Education, Primary Education
Busch, John Christian; Simon, Lawrence H. – 1972
The rod and frame performance of 70 children, 5 to 7 years of age, with respect to sex and age differences, reliability, and its relationship to general intelligence, was investigated. The rod and frame test was administered individually and again following a period of 35 to 69 days, at which time the Lorge Thorndike Intelligence Test, form 1A,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Comparative Analysis, Correlation
Mercer, Jane R.; Smith, Joyce M. – 1972
An intensive analysis of the relative value of using the Vocabulary and Block Design subtests of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) to predict Full Scale IQ based on six verbal and five performance WISC subtests was conducted. The tests were administered to 1,310 6 to 11 year old Anglo, Negro, and Mexican-American school children.…
Descriptors: Age, Blacks, Children, Elementary Education
Nicholson, Charles L.; Alcorn, Charles L. – 1993
The use of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Third Edition (WISC-III) and its interpretation in educational use are discussed. To measure intelligence, Wechsler believed one must measure the various aptitudes that contribute to the total behavior of the individual. The WISC-III has six verbal subtests and seven performance subtests.…
Descriptors: Aptitude, Behavior Patterns, Children, Cognitive Processes