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A comparison of student profiles based upon composite scale scores of the WISC‐R
Author(s) -
Sexton Larry C.,
Lee Mickey M.,
Lee Lynda N.
Publication year - 1987
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(198701)24:1<28::aid-pits2310240105>3.0.co;2-d
Subject(s) - psychology , multivariate analysis of variance , strengths and weaknesses , wechsler intelligence scale for children , wechsler adult intelligence scale , scale (ratio) , similarity (geometry) , wechsler preschool and primary scale of intelligence , variance (accounting) , multivariate analysis , test (biology) , rating scale , sample (material) , developmental psychology , mathematics education , statistics , cognition , social psychology , mathematics , psychiatry , artificial intelligence , cartography , business , image (mathematics) , chemistry , computer science , biology , paleontology , accounting , chromatography , geography
The purpose of this study was to investigate the similarity in the pattern of strengths and weaknesses between those students evaluated and placed in special education programs and those students evaluated and not placed in special education programs. The two groups were compared on the basis of 18 composite scale scores obtained from the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children‐Revised (WISC‐R). The sample consisted of 585 students in grades 1–6 located in eastern Kentucky schools. A test for parallelism of the two profiles was conducted with a multiple‐profile analysis using a multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA). The results revealed that the two profiles were parallel. The authors concluded that the two groups have a similar pattern of relative strengths and weaknesses.