title: The WISC-R and the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Achievement: correlations for exceptional children.
abstract: The present study concerns correlations of scores on the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Achievement with those on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children--Revised (WISC--R). Correlations between WISC--R Full Scale, Verbal, and Performance IQ and the Reading Aptitude Cluster, the Mathematics Aptitude Cluster, and the Written Language Aptitude Cluster of the Woodcock-Johnson were expected to be high and support the contention that conventional measures of ability do predict achievement for children. Results confirm the hypothesis. The Verbal IQ was the best one-variable predictor of each aptitude cluster, with R s ranging from .32 to .78.
authors.affiliation: Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 70803-4728.
authors.forename: F W
authors.initials: FW
authors.lastname: Beck
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Spurlock
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Lindsey
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002671:Child, Exceptional / Q000523:psychology*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014888:Wechsler Scales