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Ideational Creativity and Performance on the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (KABC).
Barclay, Kelly; And Others – 1989
Critics of divergent thinking tests have argued that these tests only tap more conventional expressions of intelligence, such as the intelligence quotient. This study was undertaken to examine the relationship between divergent thinking and scores on the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (KABC), a measure which assesses sequential processing…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Creativity, Divergent Thinking, Intelligence
Construct Validity of the K-ABC for Gifted Children.
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McCallum, R. Steve; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1985
Gifted elementary students (N=54) completed the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children. Factor structures for mental processing and achievement subtests were compared to factor structures for children from the standardization sample, revealing similar structures. The most parsimonious structure, however, accounted for under 40 percent of shared…
Descriptors: Achievement, Children, Cognitive Processes, Factor Structure
Normative Achievement Assessment of Gifted Children: Comparing the K-ABC, WRAT, and CAT.
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Karnes, Frances A.; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1986
Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) processing and achievement subtests were administered to 41 gifted students in grades four through six. Scores were compared to concurrent achievement measures from the California Achievement Test and other mental ability measures. Patterns of intercorrelations suggest that the K-ABC achievement…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Correlation
Comparisons of the K-ABC and WISC-R for LD Children.
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Klanderman, John W.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1985
The study examined correlations between the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R), the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised (PPVT-R), and the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) for 44 learning disabled primary and intermediate special class students. The Mental Processing and Achievement scales of K-ABC…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Factor Analysis, Intelligence Tests, Intermediate Grades
Evidence of Bias in Predictive Validity on the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children in Samples of Anglo and Mexican American Children.
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Valencia, Richard R.; Rankin, Richard J. – Psychology in the Schools, 1988
Investigated possible bias of Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) with 76 White and 90 Mexican-American fifth- and sixth-graders. Criterion variable was Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS). Results showed considerable evidence of bias in differential predictive validity, indicating global cognitive score of K-ABC was less…
Descriptors: Culture Fair Tests, Intelligence Tests, Intermediate Grades, Mexican Americans
Comparison of Black-White Differences on the WISC-R and the K-ABC: Spearman's Hypothesis.
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Naglieri, Jack A.; Jensen, Arthur R. – Intelligence, 1987
The Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) and the Wechsler Intelligence for Children-Revised (WISC-R) were compared with respect to the magnitudes of the average White-Black differences in standardized scaled scores and in raw scores. Subjects were 172 fourth- and fifth-grade children matched in Black-White pairs. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Blacks, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Testing, Grade 4
The Matrix Analogies Test: A Validity Study with the K-ABC.
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Smith, Douglas K. – 1988
The Matrix Analogies Test-Expanded Form (MAT-EF) and Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) were administered in counterbalanced order to two randomly selected samples of students in grades 2 through 5. The MAT-EF was recently developed to measure non-verbal reasoning. The samples included 26 non-handicapped second graders in a rural…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education