Essentials of WISC®-IV Assessment
by Dawn P. Flanagan (St. John's University, Jamaica, NY); Alan S. Kaufman (Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT)Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-09-01
Publisher(s): Wiley
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Summary
A successor to the extremely popularEssentials of WISC-III/WPPSI-R Assessment(0-471-34501-6), Essentials of WISC-IV Assessment provides beginning and seasoned clinicians comprehensive guidelines to administering, scoring, and interpreting the latest revision of the Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children. Featuring the popularEssentials format of call-out boxes, Test Yourself questions and step-by-step instructions, this handy resource also includes strengths and weaknesses of the instrument, practical clinical applications, and illustrative case reports. This detailed guide to using this immensely popular measure of intelligence is a must-have for anyone involved in the psychological testing of children.
Author Biography
Dawn P. Flanagan, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology at St. John’s University, Jamaica, New York, and the author of several books, including Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment (with Ortiz) and Essentials of WJ III® Cognitive Abilities Assessment (with Schrank, Woodcock, and Mascolo). The theory upon which the WISC®-IV is interpreted in this book–CHC theory–was first introduced in Dr. Flanagan’s book on the Wechsler Scales, published in 2000 (with McGrew and Ortiz). <p> Alan S. Kaufman, PhD, is a Professor at Yale University School of Medicine and is a series editor for the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series. He has written numerous books on the Wechsler Scales and intelligence testing, and is the author of several widely used assessment instruments.
Table of Contents
| Series Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction and Overview | p. 1 |
| How to Administer the WISC-IV | p. 45 |
| How to Score the WISC-IV | p. 96 |
| How to Interpret the WISC-IV | p. 121 |
| Strengths and Weaknesses of the WISC-IV | p. 171 |
| Clinical Applications: A Review of Special Group Studies with the WISC-IV and Assessment of Low-Incidence Populations | p. 183 |
| Clinical Applications: Assessment of Gifted, Learning Disabled, and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations | p. 216 |
| Illustrative Case Reports | p. 255 |
| Definitions of CHC Abilities | p. 295 |
| CHC Abilities Measured by Major Intelligence Tests | p. 306 |
| WISC-IV Subtest g-Loadings, by Age Group and Overall Sample | p. 308 |
| Psychometric, Theoretical, and Qualitative Characteristics of the WISC-IV | p. 310 |
| WISC-IV Interpretive Worksheet | p. 322 |
| General Ability Index (GAI) Conversion Table | p. 331 |
| Summary of Analyses of WISC-IV Indexes | p. 335 |
| Norms Tables for Clinical Clusters | p. 336 |
| References | p. 345 |
| Annotated Bibliography | p. 356 |
| Index | p. 358 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 373 |
| Authors | p. 374 |
| Contributors | p. 374 |
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