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Correlations between the Woodcock‐Johnson and the WISC‐R for a behavior disordered population
Author(s) -
Phelps LeAdelle,
Rosso Martin,
Falasco Sharon Lee
Publication year - 1984
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(198410)21:4<442::aid-pits2310210407>3.0.co;2-6
Subject(s) - woodcock , psychology , wechsler intelligence scale for children , intelligence quotient , population , developmental psychology , demography , cognition , sociology , psychiatry , ecology , biology
Correlations between the Woodcock‐Johnson Test of Cognitive Abilities (WJTCA) and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children‐Revised (WISC‐R) were evaluated on a sample of 55 behavior disordered males, 28 of whom were also diagnosed as learning disabled. Concurrent validity for this sample was demonstrated by only a 2.33 point difference between the mean WJTCA Broad Cognitive score and the mean WISC‐R Full Scale IQ score. Analysis of Pearson product‐moment correlations between each WISC‐R subtest and each Woodcock‐Johnson cluster score substantiated previous assertions that the WJTCA is unduly weighted with Product‐Dominant factors. Construct validity of some of the WJTCA clusters also was questioned. Implications of these results for behavior disordered populations were discussed.