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The equivalence of the WAIS-R and the WISC-R at age 16. 1989

M Y Quereshi, and K M Treis, and A L Riebe

Department of Psychology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53233.

Two studies were conducted in which the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children--Revised (WISC-R) and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale--Revised (WAIS-R) were administered in a counterbalanced design to 144 (72 in each study) randomly selected high school students between the ages of 16 years, 0 months and 16 years, 11 months in order to determine their equivalence by testing the equality of (a) means; (b) variances; and (c) validity coefficients based on the scaled scores and IQs. Results indicated that the two scales, with the possible exception of the Verbal IQ, were not equivalent (either with respect to subtest scores or IQs) because they did not satisfy the necessary criteria. These findings contradict those reported by Wechsler in 1981 concerning these two scales for a similar age group.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007360	Intelligence	The ability to learn and to deal with new situations and to deal effectively with tasks involving abstractions.
D008297	Male		Males
D012016	Reference Values	The range or frequency distribution of a measurement in a population (of organisms, organs or things) that has not been selected for the presence of disease or abnormality.	Normal Range,Normal Values,Reference Ranges,Normal Ranges,Normal Value,Range, Normal,Range, Reference,Ranges, Normal,Ranges, Reference,Reference Range,Reference Value,Value, Normal,Value, Reference,Values, Normal,Values, Reference
D002657	Child Development	The continuous sequential physiological and psychological maturing of an individual from birth up to but not including ADOLESCENCE.	Infant Development,Development, Child,Development, Infant
D005260	Female		Females
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000293	Adolescent	A person 13 to 18 years of age.	Adolescence,Youth,Adolescents,Adolescents, Female,Adolescents, Male,Teenagers,Teens,Adolescent, Female,Adolescent, Male,Female Adolescent,Female Adolescents,Male Adolescent,Male Adolescents,Teen,Teenager,Youths
D014888	Wechsler Scales	Tests designed to measure intellectual functioning in children and adults.	National Adult Reading Test,WAIS-R,WISC-IV,WISC-V,WMS-IV-NL,WPPSI,Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised,Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children,Wechsler Intelligence Scales,Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence,Wechsler Test of Adult Reading,Intelligence Scales, Wechsler