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Normative achievement assessment of gifted children: Comparing the K‐ABC, WRAT, and CAT
Author(s) -
Karnes Frances A.,
Edwards Ron P.,
McCallum R. Steve
Publication year - 1986
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(198610)23:4<346::aid-pits2310230405>3.0.co;2-q
Subject(s) - psychology , wechsler intelligence scale for children , intelligence quotient , achievement test , academic achievement , wechsler adult intelligence scale , normative , developmental psychology , test (biology) , standard score , clinical psychology , standardized test , cognition , psychiatry , mathematics education , statistics , paleontology , philosophy , epistemology , biology , mathematics
The Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K‐ABC) purports to assess fluid and crystallized intelligence via processing and achievement subtests, respectively. Eight K‐ABC Mental Processing and five K‐ABC Achievement subtests were administered to 41 gifted students. Scores were subsequently compared to concurrent achievement measures from the California Achievement Test (CAT), as well as previously obtained mental ability measures (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children‐Revised [WISC‐R], Stanford‐Binet [SB], and Wide Range Achievement Test [WRAT] achievement scores). In general, K‐ABC mental ability scores were lower than WISC‐R and SB IQs. K‐ABC achievement scores were consistent with K‐ABC mental ability scores, but more highly related to SB and WISC‐R VIQ ( r = .42 and .40, respectively) than to WISC‐R FSIQ ( r = .16) and PIQ ( r = .09), or to the K‐ABC Mental Processing (Composite r = .17), Simultaneous Processing ( r = .08), and Sequential Processing scores ( r = .20). With the exception of WRAT Word Recognition, WRAT, K‐ABC, and CAT achievement scores were similar. The patterns of intercorrelations suggest that the K‐ABC achievement scores are more verbally loaded than are the CAT and WRAT achievement measures.