Incremental efficacy of WISC-III factor scores in predicting achievement: What do they tell us?

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 295-301

  Glutting, Joseph J ^a   Youngstrom, Eric A ^a   Ward, Thomas ^b   Ward, Sandra ^b   Hale, Robert L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; PREDICTION; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030782989     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1040-3590.9.3.295     Document Type: Article

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