title: Assessment of preschoolers at-risk with the WPPSI--R and the Stanford-Binet L-M.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to provide data on the validity of using the WPPSI--R with 16 preschoolers who had been referred for psychological assessment. A comparison of the preschoolers' performance on the WPPSI--R and the Stanford-Binet L-M was made. Children ranged in age from 3-0 to 6-0 years, with a mean age of 4-5 yr. The correlations between WPPSI--R and Stanford-Binet L-M scores were strong; WPPSI--R Verbal IQ and Stanford-Binet L-M IQ, r = .85; WPPSI--R Performance IQ and Stanford-Binet L-M IQ, r = .75, and WPPSI--R Full Scale IQ and Stanford-Binet L-M IQ, r = .82. For this very small sample of children whose mean IQ was significantly below average, the WPPSI--R appeared to assess validly their current intellectual functioning. Attention should be given concurrent and predictive validity as well as the efficiency of using the WPPSI--R with other and larger samples of referred children.
authors.affiliation: Psychological and Quantitative Foundations, Lindquist Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242.
authors.forename: K C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Gerken
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Hodapp
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology*; D004519:Education, Special; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics; D013195:Stanford-Binet Test / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014888:Wechsler Scales / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*