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A comparison of the WISC and WISC‐R on black child psychiatric outpatients
Author(s) -
Munford Paul R.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197810)34:4<938::aid-jclp2270340423>3.0.co;2-a
Subject(s) - wechsler intelligence scale for children , psychology , developmental psychology , intelligence quotient , clinical psychology , psychiatry , cognition
Administered the WISC and WISC‐R in a counterbalanced design to 20 black child psychiatric outpatients. The resulting test scores revealed the two to be essentially different, with lower Verbal, Performance and Full Scale IQs obtained on the WISC‐R than on the WISC. The Similarities and Coding Subtests WISC‐R scores were also lower than those on the WISC. Significant practive effects occurred when the WISC was preceded by the WISC‐R, but not when the order of test presentation was reversed. The boys' combined WISC and WISC‐R scores were higher than the girls' on the Information, Arithmetic, Similarities, Vocabulary, Picture Completion, Block Design, Object Assembly, and Coding Subtests and Verbal and Full Scale IQs. The girls scored higher on Coding. The tests were found to be highly correlated. The major implication is that greater numbers of black children may be given developmental disability labels.