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Recategorized WISC‐R score patterns of older and younger referred Tlingit Indian children
Author(s) -
Connelly James B.
Publication year - 1983
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(198307)20:3<271::aid-pits2310200303>3.0.co;2-x
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , spatial ability , wechsler intelligence scale for children , intelligence quotient , cognition , psychiatry
This study investigated patterns of Bannatyne's recategorized WISC‐R scores of 146 predominantly Tlingit Indian children who were referred for psychoeducational testing. The students were divided into two groups, ages 6 through 10 and 11 through 16, in order to investigate patterns that occurred at each level and to investigate the proportions that exhibited a typically “Indian” pattern: Spatial > Sequential > Conceptual and Acquired Knowledge. As a group, the older children displayed an Indian pattern, but the younger children displayed a different one: Spatial > Conceptual and Sequential > Acquired Knowledge. Both groups, however, displayed a significantly greater proportion of children with an Indian pattern than would be expected by chance. A considerable number of individuals from both groups attained significant differences among scores in the Indian direction.