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Components of IQ Scores Across Levels of Measured Ability
Author(s) -
Malone Patrick S.,
Brounstein Paul J.,
Brock Alison,
Shaywitz Sally S.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1991.tb00439.x
Subject(s) - nomothetic and idiographic , psychology , wechsler adult intelligence scale , strengths and weaknesses , normative , wechsler intelligence scale for children , test (biology) , intelligence quotient , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , social psychology , cognition , psychiatry , paleontology , philosophy , epistemology , biology
Forty‐three (43) students from the Talent Identification Program's Summer Residential Program living in North Carolina took the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children—Revised (WISC‐R; Wechsler, 1974) during the program. The test was also administered to 50 other North Carolina Students who qualified for the SRP but did not attend, as well as 34 students who had not been identified as gifted. The scores were evaluated for normative and idiographic strengths and weaknesses on the 12 subtests of the WISC‐R. The idiographic differences were calculated by comparison against the average score of only the 6 subtests in the same subscale of the test (Verbal or Performance) as well as against all 12 subtests on the test. It was found by means of the former comparisons that the gifted students showed significantly more idiographic strengths on the Verbal scales and weaknesses on the Performance scales than the academically competent sample.