Subtests, factors, and constructs: What is being measured by tests of intelligence?

Intelligence Quotient: Testing, Role of Genetics and the Environment and Social Outcomes

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 55-68

  Watkins, Marley W ^a   Ravert, Christina M ^b  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Manheim Township School District   (United States)

Author keywords

Arithmetic; CFA; Digit span; Intelligence; WISC III; WISC IV

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895372139     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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