Comparison of the WISC-R Patterns of Children of Average and Exceptional Ability
- 1 October 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 53 (2) , 539-544
- https://doi.org/10.1177/003329418305300201
Abstract
This study investigated the diagnostic usefulness of WISC-R Verbal-Performance IQ discrepancies, subtest scatter, and Bannatyne's subtest recategorizations with educationally normal and exceptional groups of children. The subjects for this study were four groups of 74 learning disabled, 24 mentally retarded, 94 gifted, and 85 educationally normal children. No significant differences in discrepancies in Verbal-Performance IQs occurred among the four groups although learning disabled children more often showed Performance > Verbal discrepancies. No differences were found between the samples in the amount of subtest scatter. Group differences were noted in the patterns of scores on Bannatyne's recategorizations.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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