Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence

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John Wiley & Sons, Aug 5, 2005 - Psychology - 816 pages
The classic text--now updated with a new interpretive approach to the WAIS?-III

Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence, the classic text from Alan Kaufman and Elizabeth Lichtenberger, has consistently provided the most comprehensive source of information on cognitive assessment of adults and adolescents. The newly updated Third Edition provides important enhancements and additions that highlight the latest research and interpretive methods for the WAIS?-III.

Augmenting the traditional "sequential" and "simultaneous" WAIS?-III interpretive methods, the authors present a new approach derived from Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory. This approach combines normative assessment (performance relative to age peers) with ipsative assessment (performance relative to the person's own mean level). Following Flanagan and Kaufman's work to develop a similar CHC approach for the WISC?-IV, Kaufman and Lichtenberger have applied this system to the WAIS?-III profile of scores along with integrating recent WAIS?-III literature.

Four appendices present the new method in depth. In addition to a detailed description, the authors provide a blank interpretive worksheet to help examiners make the calculations and decisions needed for applying the additional steps of the new system, and norms tables for the new WAIS?-III subtest combinations added in this approach.

Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence remains the premier resource for the field, covering not only the WAIS?-III but also the WJ III?, the KAIT, and several brief measures of intelligence, as well as laying out a relevant, up-to-date discussion of the discipline. The new, theory-based interpretive approach for the WAIS?-III makes this a vital resource for practicing psychologists, as well as a comprehensive text for graduate students.
 

Contents

Chapter 1 IQ Tests Their History Use Validity and Intelligent Interpretation
1
Chapter 2 Heritability and Malleability of IQ and Attacks on the IQ Construct
24
Chapter 3 From the WechslerBellevue I to the WAISIII
61
Chapter 4 Individual Differences for Adolescents and Adults on Gender Ethnicity Urban Rural Residence and Socioeconomic Status
96
Chapter 5 Age and Intelligence across the Adult Life Span
127
Chapter 6 Research on Administration Scoring and Relationships between Wechsler Scales
192
Chapter 7 Factor Analysis of the WAISIII
218
Chapter 8 Verbal Performance IQ Discrepancies A Neuropsychological Approach
244
Chapter 13 Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test KAIT
522
Chapter 14 The WoodcockJohnson Battery Third Edition WJ III
561
Chapter 15 Brief Tests of Intelligence and Related Abilities
629
Appendix A Alternative Approach to Interpreting the WAISIII Applying the TheoryBased FlanaganKaufman Interpretive Method for the WISCIV
663
Appendix B WAISIII Interpretive Worksheet
690
Appendix C Norm Tables for Computing Standard Scores on the General Ability Index GAI and the Clinical Clusters
698
Appendix D Watkins and Canivezs Critique of the KaufmanLichtenberger Interpretive System and Articulation of a New TheoryBased Approach to ...
708
R E F E R E N C E S
718

Chapter 9 Verbal Performance IQ Discrepancies A Clinical Approach
317
Chapter 10 Profile Interpretation What the Subtests Measure
369
Chapter 11 WAISIII Profile Interpretation Steps 1 7
412
Chapter 12 WAISIII Profile Interpretation Steps 8 and 9
447

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About the author (2005)

ALAN S. KAUFMAN, PhD, is Clinical Professor of Psychology at Yale University School of Medicine and resides in San Diego, California. He is the author or coauthor of numerous, widely used psychological assessment instruments and books, and is a series editor (with Nadeen Kaufman) of the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series (Wiley). He and Elizabeth Lichtenberger have collaborated on a number of books, including Essentials of WAISŪ-III Assessments. His most recent tests include the second editions of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (KABC-II), Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement (KTEA-II), and Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (KBIT-2).

ELIZABETH O. LICHTENBERGER, PhD, is a clinical psychologist residing in Carlsbad, California. She has coauthored numerous books, including Essentials of Assessment Report Writing (with Nancy Mather, Nadeen Kaufman, and Alan Kaufman), Essentials of KABC-II Assessment (with Alan Kaufman, Elaine Fletcher-Janzen, and Nadeen Kaufman), and Essentials of WIAT-IIŪ and KTEA-II Assessment (with Donna Smith), all from Wiley.

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