Administered the Slosson Intelligence Test (SIT) to 92 preschool children. Administered the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale to a sample of the group, and the results were compared to the results from the SIT. Results indicated the SIT overestimated the performance of average preschool children. (Author)

Investigated the modification of impulsive responding to WISC-R subtests using a procedure which forced the child to delay before responding. Screened boys, ages 8-0 to 8-11, on the basis of cognitive tempo. Retesting showed the forced delay administration significantly improved the scoring of Impulsives but not of Reflectives. (Author/RC)

Slosson Intelligence Test (SIT) scores, taken at the kindergarten level were correlated with the acquisition of sight vocabulary and later measures of reading achievement (Stanford Achievement Test scores). Correlation coefficients ranged from .61 to .87. (Author/GK)

Mexican-American participants in a summer career-exploration program were given the Kent Emergency Scale and the Otis-Lennon Test of Mental Abilities. Correlation between Otis IQ and Kent raw score was significantly positive but lower than those reported in other settings. Caution is warranted in interpreting Kent results in Mexican-Americans.…

A review of the literature regarding the utility of Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) with learning disabled (LD) students was conducted. It is concluded that the WISC-R can be an adjunct to LD diagnosis and one step in educational planning for the LD student. (Author)

The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised profiles of 30 "uneven gifted" children (mean age 10 years) were examined to assess strengths and deficits as well as scatter. (Author)

The principal finding of an analysis of two sets of data obtained from a sample of approximately 6,200 men is the absence of a negative relationship between parental intelligence test scores and number of offspring. Available from North-Holland Publishing Company, P.O. Box 211, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (Author/MLF)

Investigated the relationship between subtest scatter on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children and higher intellectual potential as indicated by subsequent reexamination and grouping of children. Results indicated that scatter on the initial examinations is a poor indicator of the presence of higher intellectual potential. (Author/RC)

A study involving 98 children (6 to 13 years old) in ten learning disabilities (LD) classes investigated the hypothesized pattern of recategorized WISC-R (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised) subtest scores into spatial, conceptual, and sequential areas. (SBH)

Examines influence of Francis Galton and the Eugenics Education Society in the intelligence testing movement in England (early 1900s). For eugenicists, the central issue confronting society was the problem of racial deterioration. They responded with modification of the Binet-Simon tests and developed tests to examine the whole ability range.…

Compared the WISC-R performance of children ranging in age from 6-6 to 15-10, referred to a university center for suspected learning disabilities, with that of clinically-defined groups of learning disabled children. The university center children were bound to have WISC-R profiles similar to those of the learning disabled children. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to measure the relationship between the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) IQs and subtest scaled scores of preschool children and their reading achievement in grade one. Further study of the predictive power of the Geometric Designs and Arithmetic subtests was suggested. (Author)

The study involving 40 learning disabled children (6-8 years old) investigated the relationships between the various indexes of the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities (MSCA) and the scales of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R), and the comparability between the MSCA General Cognitive Index and the WISC-R Full Scale…

A program written in BASIC that produces a 20-item mathematics test is given. (MK)

A WAIS short form, consisting of the Similarities, Picture Arrangement, and Block Design subtests, was administered to 109 undergraduates. Correlation between these scores and their Full Scale WAIS IQ scores was .90. The subtests underestimated IQ by 9.29 points, suggesting that the constant be adjusted for this population. (SJL)