title: Relationships between the WISC-III and the Cognitive Assessment System with Conners' rating scales and continuous performance tests.
abstract: The aim of this study was to examine the relationships between intelligence, ratings of behavior, and continuous performance test scores for a sample of 117 children aged 6-16 years who were referred to a specialty clinic. The sample was comprised of children who had a primary (45%) or secondary (36%) diagnosis of ADHD. All children were given the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children Third Edition (WISC-III), Cognitive Assessment System (CAS), Conners' Continuous Performance Test (CPT), and Conners' Parent and Teacher Rating Scales--Revised, Long Form. Correlations between Conners' Behavior Rating Scale and Conners' Continuous Performance Test were uniformly low and non-significant (the highest correlation was .17). Correlations between the WISC-III and Conners' Parent Rating Scale were all non-significant, but Teacher Ratings showed significant correlations between most of the WISC-III factors and the Cognitive Problems/Inattention scores. Few significant correlations were found between CPT with the WISC-III and CAS. These results suggest that practitioners should expect to find a lack of consistency between the scores provided by these measures and should be conservative of their use in clinical settings.
authors.affiliation: Center for Cognitive Development, Department of Psychology, MSN 2C6, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA. Naglieri@gmu.edu
authors.forename: Jack A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Naglieri
authors.forename: Sam
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Goldstein
authors.forename: Brianna Y
authors.initials: BY
authors.lastname: Delauder
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schwebach
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001076:Aptitude / Q000502:physiology; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D014888:Wechsler Scales / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*