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Wasik, John L.; Wasik, Barbara H. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1972
Between-scale correlations indicate that both tests provide similar measures of intellectual performance, but because of the discrepancy in mean IQ scores of the WPPSI and WISC, comparisons should be confined to within-test contrasts. (Author)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Intelligence Tests, Measurement, Performance Tests
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Guthrie, John T. – Reading Teacher, 1984
Argues that if a testing situation is not similar to situations in which a child regularly performs linguistically, the test's ecological validity is compromised and its results must be viewed skeptically. (FL)
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Intelligence Tests, Performance Factors, Performance Tests
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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Silver, Stephen J.; Clampit, Michael K. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1990
A table is provided for determining the frequency of occurrence of Verbal-Performance discrepancies on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) in profiles of high Intelligence Quotient children. Warnings are offered regarding the adverse effect of subtest substitution or omission when administering the WISC-R to highly…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Elementary Secondary Education, Intelligence Quotient, Intelligence Tests
Orost, Jean H. – 1972
Three third-grade, three sixth-grade, and three adult female examiners tested 108 kindergarten and third-grade girls, half of whom were familiar to them, on three individually administered measures. No differences in performance on any measure as a function of familiarity were found at either grade level. No differences by examiners of different…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Examiners, Grade 3, Grade 6
Colvin, Stephen S. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1924
A decade ago intelligence testing was in its beginnings in the United States. There were no standardized tests available except those of the Binet-Simon scale. These tests had been used but little, and chiefly for the detection and classification of the backward and the feeble-minded. Goddard had just begun pioneer work in this field, while…
Descriptors: Intelligence Tests, Intelligence, Performance Tests, Testing
Burns, Marilyn Jones – 1969
The purpose of this study was to discover characteristics of CITOC, the Children's Individual Test of Creativity, an instrument including both a verbal and performance measure of six abilities of creativity--sensitivity to problems, fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration, and redefinition. To evaluate the CITOC measure, the hypotheses were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Creativity, Creativity Research
Vonderhaar, Kathleen; And Others – 1975
An updated and improved listing of test and measurement items useful in Adult Basic Education Classrooms is provided. Diagnostic, placement, achievement, and group and individual intelligence tests are reviewed. Information on test type and purpose, appropriate grade level, test time, number of forms, the manual, scoring, and format is included.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Students
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