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Title

Intelligent testing with the WISC-III / Alan S. Kaufman.

Author

Kaufman, Alan S.

Publication

New York : Wiley, [1994], ©1994.

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Description

xxii, 458 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

• Alan S. Kaufman has been on the cutting edge of intelligence testing for more than twenty-five years. Not least among his many important contributions to the field during that time has been his groundbreaking Intelligent Testing with the WISC-R, the book that taught an entire generation of psychologists and educators internationally how to interpret and make intelligent use of Wechsler's intelligence scales.
• Now from the man whose name has become synonymous worldwide with the intelligent use of intelligence testing, here is the definitive guide to Intelligent Testing with the WISC-III.
• Revised and updated to reflect not only crucial changes to the WISC-R, but also the latest research findings on intelligence testing and its real-world applications, this book provides examiners with a rational, step-by-step approach to organizing and making sense of the barrage of numbers derived from the WISC-III's many subtests and factor indexes. Key features include a new, seven-step interpretive approach; in-depth coverage of the new Processing Speed factor, the modified Freedom from Distractibility factor, and the new Symbol Search subtest; ten new case reports that illustrate the approach explicated in the book; detailed guidance on translating test scores into specific clinical and educational intervention strategies; a new statistical technique for interpreting relative strengths and weaknesses on separate subtests; integrating profiles of scores on the WISC-III with those yielded by seven other major multiscore batteries: Das-Naglieri, DAS, Detroit-3, K-ABC, Stanford-Binet, KAIT, and Woodcock-Johnson-Revised; in-depth examinations of relevant applications of Horn-Catell fluid-crystallized and Horn-revised theories of intelligence; and complete numerical charts, tables, and other statistical aids.

Series Statement

Wiley series on personality processes

Uniform Title

Wiley series on personality processes.

Subject

• Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children

Note

• "A Wiley-Interscience publication."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-429) and indexes.

Contents

1. Intelligent Testing -- 2. Abilities Measured by the WISC-III Subtests and the Clinical Lore That Surrounds Them -- 3. Seven Steps for Interpreting the WISC-III Profile: From IQs to Factor Indexes to Scaled Scores -- 4. Interpreting Verbal-Nonverbal Discrepancies (V-P IQ and VC-PO Index) -- 5. The "Validity" Factors: Freedom from Distractibility and Processing Speed -- 6. Interpreting Subtest Profiles -- 7. Comprehensive Clinical and Psychoeducational Case Studies.

ISBN

0471578452 (alk. paper)

LCCN

94004257

OCLC

• 29909296
• ocm29909296

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries