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Test Review: The Revised PPVT.
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Kipps, Debi; Hanson, Dave – School Psychology Review, 1983
The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised (Dunn and Dunn) is described as a convenient, quick test, possessing improvements over the original. It measures a subject's receptive (hearing) vocabulary for Standard American English. However, the validity information for the test is less than adequate, since no validity studies are presented for it.…
Descriptors: Auditory Tests, Individual Testing, Scores, Test Length
A Critical Review of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC).
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Bracken, Bruce A. – School Psychology Review, 1985
Discrepancies between the K-ABC and its theoretical base of simultaneous and sequential mental processing; technical and design problems related to disproportionate subtest contributions of the Simultaneous Scale to the Mental Processing Composite; the method of subtest-specific variance computation and use in interpretation; and utility with…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Individual Testing, Intelligence Tests
Questioning the K-ABC: What Does It Measure?
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Keith, Timothy Z. – School Psychology Review, 1985
Three levels from the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) standardization sample were randomly selected and their subtest score intercorrelations were subjected to factor analysis. The analyses yielded minor inconsistencies which suggest the instrument does not primarily measure simultaneous and sequential processing and achievement as…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Processes, Correlation, Elementary Education