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Peer reviewedSlate, John R.; Chick, David – Psychology in the Schools, 1989
Clinical psychology graduate students (N=14) administered Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised. Found numerous scoring and mechanical errors that influenced full-scale intelligence quotient scores on two-thirds of protocols. Particularly prone to error were Verbal subtests of Vocabulary, Comprehension, and Similarities. Noted specific…
Descriptors: Clinical Psychology, Error of Measurement, Examiners, Graduate Students
Peer reviewedPayne, Beverly D.; Payne, David A. – Psychology in the Schools, 1989
Investigated relationship between academic achievement and locus of control among 643 elementary school students. Found no main effects for gender or race. Observed significant main effect for condition (at-risk versus not-at-risk), with at-risk students being more externally oriented. Found significant effect for grade, trend being for grade…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedGaughan, Edward; Axelrod, Saul – Psychology in the Schools, 1989
Examined relationship between on-task behaviors and standardized achievement among emotionally disturbed or behavior disordered students. Forty emotionally disturbed or behavior disordered elementary school students participated in token economy for one academic year. Noted minimal pre-post achievement gains and high level of on-task behavior; no…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Elementary Education
The Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) in the Assessment of Learning Disabled Children.
Peer reviewedRethazi, Maya; Wilson, Anne Keeton – Psychology in the Schools, 1988
Examined whether Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) could discriminate between learning disabled and normal preadolescents. Tested 43 learning disabled (LD) students and 20 students without learning disabilities. Results indicated that the Achievement score relative to the Mental Processing Composite score was the only measure to…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Intelligence Tests
Peer reviewedHeath, Charles P.; Obrzut, John E. – Psychology in the Schools, 1988
Examined relationship of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC), the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (Revised), (WISC-R), and the Woodcock-Johnson Psychoeducational Battery (W-JPB), Part Two, using children (N=34) with learning disabilities. Found more consistent relationships between WISC-R and W-JPB Achievement tests than…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Testing, Concurrent Validity, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedWebster, Raymond E. – Psychology in the Schools, 1988
Examined temporal stability of Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) for adolescents (N=155) identified as either educable mentally retarded (EMR) or learning disabled (LD). Found three major scales of WISC-R to be more stable over three-year period for LD than for EMR group, while subtest scales for EMR group showed greater…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Learning Disabilities, Mild Mental Retardation, Special Education
Peer reviewedSandoval, Jonathan; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1988
Examined similarity of scores of 30 learning disabled students (aged 16 and 17) on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R). Results documented similarity between WISC-R and WAIS-R for 16 year-olds who were learning disabled and had average intellectual ability.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Testing, Learning Disabilities, Special Education
Peer reviewedPhelps, LeAdelle; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1988
Compared Stanford-Binet (Fourth Edition) and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised as instruments for assessing the intellectual strengths and weaknesses of students (N=35) classified as learning disabled in elementary and secondary grades. Results suggest the tests will yield similar intelligence quotients for the learning disabled…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Intelligence Quotient
Peer reviewedFimian, Michael J. – Psychology in the Schools, 1988
Assessed classroom stress and burnout experienced by 121 gifted and talented students, ages 10-15, in combination with background, personal, and general anxiety and stress variables. Found poor self-esteem, an externalized locus of control, high levels of state and trait anxiety, poor school life quality, and tedium proved to be significant…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Adolescents, Anxiety, Burnout
Peer reviewedSchulte, Ann C.; Borich, Gary D. – Psychology in the Schools, 1988
Examines various procedures for constructing confidence intervals that have been suggested in measurement texts in relation to their approximation to the most accurate procedure that uses the estimated true score as the center of the confidence interval and the standard error of estimate to determine width. (Author/ABL)
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Scores, Test Construction, Test Interpretation
Peer reviewedNoble, Betty; Dickinson, Donald J. – Psychology in the Schools, 1988
Investigated perceptions by elementary school teachers (N=28) of the usefulness and ease of implementation of traditional recommendations that attribute the cause of referral problems to the individual student's characteristics or environmental conditions, as compared to recommendations that address a student's problem with varying degrees of…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Program Effectiveness, Psychological Evaluation
Peer reviewedHorne, Marcia D. – Psychology in the Schools, 1988
Discusses uses of terms handicapped, disabled, and exceptional which are often used interchangeably to describe individuals eligible for special education services. Recommends the term exceptional because the other two can lead to negative attitudes toward individuals so labeled. (Author/ABL)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Exceptional Persons, Labeling (of Persons), Negative Attitudes
Peer reviewedOrmerod, Judith J.; Huebner, E. Scott – Psychology in the Schools, 1988
Discusses various adjustment reactions displayed by some parents in the process of crisis resolution when they are informed by school psychologists that their child is handicapped. Presents implications for the school psychologist's role with parents of exceptional children within a crisis intervention framework. (Author/ABL)
Descriptors: Crisis Intervention, Disabilities, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedGrindler, Martha – Psychology in the Schools, 1988
Assigned test-anxious fourth and fifth graders (N=66) to a cognitive monitoring training or a control group. Pretreatment, posttreatment, and six-week follow-up measures revealed no significant differences between groups on either the self-report measure of test anxiety or the Metropolitan Achievement Test. (Author/ABL)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Behavior Modification, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedPryor, Colin W.; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1989
Students (N=738) from grades one-five who exhibited behavior problems were assessed for behavioral disturbance using the Teacher's Report Form of the Child Behavior Checklist. Data were analyzed to assess the form's internal consistency, accuracy in discriminating disturbed and nondisturbed students, and validity in terms of grade repetition and…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Check Lists, Comparative Analysis, Construct Validity
