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Determining basals for the peabody individual achievement test
Author(s) -
Wikoff Richard L.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6807(197904)16:2<172::aid-pits2310160202>3.0.co;2-8
Subject(s) - psychology , test (biology) , achievement test , significant difference , intelligence quotient , academic achievement , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , mathematics education , standardized test , statistics , mathematics , cognition , psychiatry , biology , paleontology
The appropriateness of the starting points for PIAT subtests as suggested by the test authors was investigated. For a sample of 113 subjects with an average WISC‐R Full Scale IQ of 98, there was an average difference of nearly 8 points between the suggested starting points for the Mathematics subtest and the actual basals. The difference between suggested starting points and basals for the other subtests ranged from 8 to 12 points. It was suggested that the PIAT user start each subtest approximately 8 items below that suggested by the Manual .