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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children -- Revised"”.
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The relationship between the Wechsler intelligence scale for children-revised (WISC-R), a short form (WISC-RSH), and the wide range achievement test (WRAT) in learning disabled students
… study was to determine if the Split-Half Short Form WISC-R correlates over time with the WISC-R and whether either of these two separately administered measures of intellectual ability were able to predict academic achievement in a sample of learning disabled students using the WRAT as the …
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The differential effects of situational and motivational cues and moral reasoning on prosocial behavior in kindergarten and fifth grade children
… social comprehension on the donating behavior of children of differential age groups. Forty-six children of kindergarten age and 32 fifth grade children were divided into four control groups (controllability, controllability/reciprocity, uncontrollability, or uncontrollability/reciprocity), read …
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An investigation of the relationship between playfulness and self-esteem
… studied in a sample of 93 first and second grade children. Playfulness and externality were obtained from teacher ratings on the Child Behaviors Inventory and self-perceptions were obtained via child interviews using Harter and Pike’s (1984) Pictorial Scale of Perceived Competence and Social …
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Utility of traditional cognitive measures in the prediction of neuropsychological dysfunction in children
… impairment in learning disabled children. The subjects were 368 learning disabled children ranging in age from 9 to 14, with a mean age of 10.68 years, and a standard deviation of 1.62. In addition to traditional psychoeducational measures, each subject was administered the …
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Correlates of the MMPI-A Immaturity (IMM) Scale in an Adolescent Psychiatric Population
… of ego development or maturation targeted for the assessment of adolescents. The Immaturity (IMM) Scale developed for the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory - Adolescent (MMPI-A) was designed to fill this void in adolescent assessment. The present study examined the concurrent …
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The effect of test anxiety on IQ test performance, achievement, and self-concept in elementary schoolchildren
IQ test performance of elementary schoolchildren was investigated as a function of two levels of test anxiety and two types of IQ measure. IQ measures used, the New South African Group Test (NSAGT) and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - Revised (WISC-R) were assumed to vary in …
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Use of the Intermediate Category Test in Arithmetic Disability Subtypes
… about those groups, along with patterns of performance on the ICT, might help describe what the ICT measures in greater detail. The convergent and divergent validity of the ICT was examined using archival data from 81 children with arithmetic learning disabilities. Children were divided into …
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Score Changes from the WISC-R to the WISC-III in Disabled Population in Kentucky
… to examine the extent of score changes from the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) to the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Third Edition (WISC-III) when administered to Learning Disabled and Mild Mental Disabled populations. Specifically, this study examined whether …
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Cognitive strategies and heuristics underlying psychologists’ judgments on the WISE-R verbal scales : a protocol analysis
… while scoring difficult verbal responses on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised. A total of 23 psychologists participated in the study. First of all, in order to obtain scoring information descriptive of the sample, psychologists scored a WISC-R protocol. This protocol comprised …
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The relationship between scholastic performance and neuropsychological functioning in a sample of institutionalised children
… lack of academic attainment of a large number of children in alternative care. The current research investigated the relationship between scholastic performance and neuropsychological functioning in a sample of institutionalised children from culturally deprived families. A multiple case study of …
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Interrelationship among intelligence, adaptive behavior, and academic achievement of elementary students referred for individual evaluation
… between adaptive behavior and achievement when intelligence was statistically controlled. A random sample of 70 students of ages 6 through 11 was selected from a pool of subjects referred for individual psychological/educational evaluation. The sample, which consisted of students in a single, …
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Standardization of the WISC-R for students aged 12-15 years in Iraq
… the educational system in Iraq with a test of intelligence which could have been standardized on a large sample of 12 to 15 year- old students throughout that country. Rather than construct a new intelligence test it was decided to use a well-established test, the Wechsler Intelligence Scale …
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Neuropsychological aspects of arithmetic performance in children with learning disorders
… auditory/verbal and visual/written arithmetic performance in a large sample of children with learning disorders. In addition, the efficacy of a cognitive based arithmetic problem solving model (Dinnel, Glover, & Halpain, in press; Dinnel, Glover, & Ronning, 1984) in accounting for …
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Examiner Bias and Intelligence Test Scoring : a Study of the Effect of Speech-Handicapped Responses on the Scoring of the WISC-R Comprehension Subtest
… of the concerns in education today is bias in intelligence tests. Examiner bias and the expectancy effect is largely ignored. An unexplored variable in the research is an examinee's speech handicap and the effect it may produce in the scoring of an intelligence test.</p> <p>Method</p> …
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The influence of teacher knowledge of the personality charcteristics and educational implications of the field-independent/field-dependent cognitive style on the self-esteem and attitude toward school of slow-learning children
… toward school in slow-learning third grade children and to determine if teacher knowledge of the personality characteristics and educational implications of this cognitive style would influence the self-esteem and attitude toward school of these children. The study was conducted within …