Augmenting the core battery with supplementary subtests: Wechsler adult intelligence scale-iv measurement invariance across the United States and Canada

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Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 133-140

  Bowden, Stephen C ^a   Saklofske, Donald H ^b   Weiss, Lawrence G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c PEARSON   (United States)

Author keywords

cross cultural study; intelligence; validity; Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Fourth edition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANADA; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; UNITED STATES; WECHSLER SCALES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955879152     PISSN: 10731911     EISSN: 15523489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073191110381717     Document Type: Article

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