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Analysis of a short test battery for children
Author(s) -
Zagar Robert,
Mead John D.
Publication year - 1983
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(198307)39:4<590::aid-jclp2270390422>3.0.co;2-b
Subject(s) - psychology , wechsler intelligence scale for children , wechsler adult intelligence scale , test (biology) , principal component analysis , developmental psychology , hierarchical clustering , multilevel model , peabody picture vocabulary test , stanford–binet intelligence scales , wechsler preschool and primary scale of intelligence , audiology , cognition , cluster analysis , statistics , psychiatry , medicine , paleontology , mathematics , biology
Explored the hierarchical structure of mental abilities by comparing principal component analysis with a hierarchical cluster analysis algorithm on a short test battery for children. This short test battery included the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children‐Revised (WISC‐R), the Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT), the Beery Developmental Test of Visual‐Motor Integration (VMI) and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT). Scores from 182 children (116 boys and 66 girls) with a mean age of 10.83 were analyzed. The structure of the test battery included general intelligence, attention, academic achievement and perceptual‐motor eye‐hand coordination. Both the linear principal component analysis and the nonlinear hierarchical clustering analysis confirmed the hierarchical organization of mental abilities.