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IQ = 69 = mildly retarded?: Factors influencing multidisciplinary team recommendations on children with FSIQs between 63 and 75
Author(s) -
Furlong Michael J.,
Ledrew Lynette
Publication year - 1985
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(198501)22:1<5::aid-pits2310220102>3.0.co;2-4
Subject(s) - psychology , multidisciplinary approach , cutoff , scale (ratio) , linear discriminant analysis , developmental psychology , intelligence quotient , clinical psychology , psychiatry , statistics , cognition , social science , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , sociology
Discriminant analysis was used to examine factors that influenced the educational diagnoses of a sample of 80 referred students in grades 1 to 6. All students had WISCR Full Scale IQs between 63 and 75, which includes the range of scores that is ±2 SEm around the cutoff value of 69 used by the student's school district to define the upper limit of the mildly retarded classification. The results indicate that the recommendations made by the multidisciplinary teams were associated primarily with the level of the Full Scale IQ.