Performance of black and white South African children on the Wechsler intelligence scale for children-revised and the Kaufman assessment battery

Psychological Reports

Volumn 86, Issue 3 PART 1, 2000, Pages 727-737

  Skuy, Mervyn ^a   Taylor, Mandy ^b   O'Carroll, Shelley ^b   Fridjhon, Peter ^b   Rosenthal, Lesley ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; NEGRO; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICS; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUTH AFRICA; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 0034198761     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2000.86.3.727     Document Type: Article

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