Administration and Scoring Errors of Graduate Students Learning the WISC-IV: Issues and Controversies

Canadian Journal of School Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 279-290

  Mrazik, Martin ^a   Janzen, Troy M ^a   Dombrowski, Stefan C ^b   Barford, Sean W ^a   Krawchuk, Lindsey L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

examiner error; intelligence test instruction; psychological assessment; test reliability; WISC IV

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869842577     PISSN: 08295735     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0829573512454106     Document Type: Article

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