In this study, dynamic testing principles were applied to examine progression of analogy problem solving, the roles that cognitive flexibility and metacognition play in children's progression as well as training benefits, and instructional needs of 7- to 8-year-old gifted and average-ability children. Utilizing a pretest training posttest control…

Research has demonstrated that many children have learning problems related to deficits in specific cognitive processes that are not adequately represented by a single IQ score. The administration of cognitive measures that include narrow abilities is useful in understanding specific learning problems and developing effective interventions.…

Discusses Bauman's (1991) evaluation of stability of Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (Revised) IQs in children with learning difficulties. Argues that some procedures produced magnified estimates of instability. Presents reanalysis of data that suggests that, although stability coefficients were high, approximately 25 percent of sample…

Comments on an article in a previous issue of this journal (v9 n3 1972). (CJ)

The results of this experiment clearly indicate that the presence of induced anxiety in a testing situation can depress the subject's level of performance on the WISC. (Author)

The results suggest that inexperienced undergraduate examiners trained to administer WISC subtests under anxious and nonanxious roles do not differ significantly either on the overall scores they obtain or on the scores obtained in a standard administration condition and one designed to convey anxiety. (Author)

Subtest questions of the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence are ordered from least to most difficult. Test records of 89 females and 62 males revealed though questions were misordered for the present sample, misordering was not great enough to seriously affect subtest scores or interpretation of intratest scatter. (Author)

Correlations with Binet IQ in the ITPA normative sample were corrected for restricted intelligence range. The corrected correlation for the Psycholinguistic Quotient is as high as that between the WISC and the Binet, a finding that raises a serious question about the construct validity of the ITPA. (Author)

Examined the effects of race of examiner and level of mistrust of Whites on the Stanford-Binet performance of 105 Black elementary school children. The Black examiner-high mistrust group scored significantly higher than the White examiner-high mistrust group, and significantly higher than the Black examiner-low mistrust group. (WAS)

Reports on a survey investigating the use of dynamic assessment and other nontraditional techniques among school psychologists (N=226). Results indicated that 39% of respondents reported using dynamic assessment techniques once a year or more. The most frequently endorsed reasons for not using dynamic assessment were lack of knowledge and time…

WISC-R was administered to 76 subjects from rural school districts referred to a consulting school psychologist for learning problems. Each subject's results on old and new color formats of Coding B subtest were compared. Results suggest possibility of a color enhancement effect, at least with students having learning problems. (Author)

The present study was undertaken with two related goals: (a) to examine the relationships between the WRAT and CAT, and (b) to examine the relationships which may exist between these academic achievement tests -nd a standard intelligence battery such as the Wechsler Scale. (Author)

Results of the study indicate that regardless of the presence or absence of verbal approval by the examiner during the administration, there was no significant difference in children's test performance on the WISC. (Author)

The mean IQ on the Slosson Intelligence Test (SIT) was substantially higher than expected based on the earlier Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) scores. Sampling error and examiner error were excluded as explanations. Results suggest that the PPVT and SIT yield different scores and lack comparability. (Author)