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Peer reviewedValencia, Richard R.; Rothwell, Judith G. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1984
The concurrent validity of the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) was assessed against the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities in a sample of 39 Mexican-American preschool children from low socioeconomic status background. Results indicated some specific support for the WPPSI's concurrent validity. (Author/BS)
Descriptors: Culture Fair Tests, Individual Testing, Intelligence Tests, Mexican Americans
Peer reviewedBracken, Bruce A. – School Psychology Review, 1985
Discrepancies between the K-ABC and its theoretical base of simultaneous and sequential mental processing; technical and design problems related to disproportionate subtest contributions of the Simultaneous Scale to the Mental Processing Composite; the method of subtest-specific variance computation and use in interpretation; and utility with…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Individual Testing, Intelligence Tests
Peer reviewedKeith, Timothy Z. – School Psychology Review, 1985
Three levels from the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) standardization sample were randomly selected and their subtest score intercorrelations were subjected to factor analysis. The analyses yielded minor inconsistencies which suggest the instrument does not primarily measure simultaneous and sequential processing and achievement as…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Processes, Correlation, Elementary Education
Schaeffer, Gary A.; And Others – 1979
Developmental psychologists have not traditionally documented the psychometric properties of their observational instruments, partly because such concepts as reliability and validity are associated mainly with paper-and-pencil tests. A multitrait-multimethod correlation matrix (MTMM) was presented as a useful method for the psychometric evaluation…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Child Development, Correlation, Developmental Psychology
Yeh, Mary C. L. – 1976
This paper deals with measurement of language dominance at the early-childhood level using a rating scale to help bilingual programs with student classification and placement. Some of the assumptions unique in the measurement of language dominance are discussed and applied to the validation procedure on a Spanish/English language dominance scale…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Individual Testing, Language Dominance, Language Proficiency
Hoversten, Gloria H. – 1977
The Test of Auditory Comprehension (TAC), one component of the Auditory Skills Instructional Planning System, is a comprehensive test instrument designed for individual use with hearing impaired pupils, four through twelve years of age, for assessing receptive auditory functioning. Included in the TAC are ten discrete subtests measuring auditory…
Descriptors: Auditory Evaluation, Auditory Perception, Auditory Tests, Diagnostic Tests
