Are the general factors from different child and adolescent intelligence tests the same? Results from a five-sample, six-test analysis

School Psychology Review

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 383-401

  Floyd, Randy G ^a   Reynolds, Matthew R ^b   Farmer, Ryan L ^a   Kranzler, John H ^c  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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