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Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale—Fourth Edition (WAIS–IV) by David Wechsler, Statistics Solutions[edit]

Used as a general test the intelligence, the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale –Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV) was developed to assess cognitive ability for adults. This instruments aids in examining the relationship between intellectual functional and memory. A common purpose for the WAIS is for educational planning and placement with older adolescents and adults.

The test includes 11 subtests with various types of format. Approximately 60 to 90 minutes is required for completion.

Reliability and Validity[edit]

The Wechsler Adult Intelligence is a well-established scale and it has fairly high consistency. Over a two to twelve week time period, the test-retest reliabilities ranged from 0.70 (7 subscales) to 0.90 (2 subscales). Inter-scorer coefficients were very high, all being above 0.90. According to the test manual, the instrument targets three areas: psychoeducational disability, neuropsychiatric and organic dysfunction, and giftedness. The WAIS correlated highly with the Stanford-Binet IV test (0.88) and had high concordance with various measures: memory, language, dexterity, motor speed, attention, and cognitive ability.

Obtaining the WAIS-IV[edit]

Pearson Assessments

Administration, Analysis and Reporting[edit]

Statistics Solutions consists of a team of professional methodologists and statisticians that can assist the student or professional researcher in administering the survey instrument, collecting the data, conducting the analyses and explaining the results.

Dissertations Using the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale[edit]

Below is a list of dissertations that use the WAIS-IV. The full version of these dissertations can be found using ProQuest.

Hershberger, K. A. (1997). The relationship between conceptually similar subtests of the wechsler adult intelligence scale-revised and the career ability placement survey with a vocational rehabilitation sample. University of Cincinnati.

Meyer, M. P. (2000). Use of the wechsler abbreviated scale of intelligence in a vocational rehabilitation sample. University of Cincinnati.

New column for table in the "Index scores and scales" section[edit]

Any objection to duplicating the time info from the "Description" column into a new column vith values: "untimed", "timed", "time-limited" (or abbreviations such as U/T/TL with a legend) for ease of reference? If you think it's worth adding, would you want color backgrounds in addition to the text (and if so, which colors), or text only? If no one objects, I plan to do it whenever I think of it again or 2 months after the first reply, whichever comes first. The Crab Who Played With The Sea (talk) 14:25, 28 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: PSYC 115 General Psychology[edit]

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 30 August 2023 and 15 December 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Chillykangaroo06, Drog49 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by RealSpill27 (talk) 19:11, 29 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Contributing to WAIS-III and WAIS-IV[edit]

We will use the Test Review source on the Fourth edition of the intelligence scale to add citations and additional information to the paragraph in the article that covers that edition. For example, a lot of the information in this section had no citations to it so if the information already in the article matches information from the source we will add a citation in those spots.

We plan on adding specific information to the WAIS-III section about how education and background can affect the scores of specific individuals. We also plan on adding some citations to this section because it does not include a lot of them. We just added one sentence citing some new major contributors to WAIS-III.

--Chillykangaroo06 (talk) 20:43, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]