A CONCURRENT VALIDITY STUDY BETWEEN THE DIFFERENTIAL APTITUDE TEST FORM L AND THE WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE FOR CHILDREN

Author

Loren Paul Anderson, Jr., Kansas State College Of Pittsburg

Date of Award

Fall 8-1966

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Education Specialist (EdS)

Department

Education

Abstract

The purpose of this project was to study the relationship that existed between the scores of fifty boys and fifty girls of a Midwestern suburban junior high school on the Differential Aptitude Test Battery Form L--DAT, a test for measuring the abilities of boys and girls in grades eight through twelve--and the scores of the same students on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children--WISC, an individual intelligence test for children and young people between the ages of five and fifteen. This study had for its ultimate goal a better understanding of the concurrent validity between these two testing instruments. Concurrent validity "is concerned with the relation of test scores to an accepted contemporary criterion of performance on the variable which the test is intended to measure" (Educational Testing Service, 1961).

Comments

iv, 92 leaves ; 28 cm. Bibliography: leaves 88-92

Recommended Citation

Anderson, Jr., Loren Paul, "A CONCURRENT VALIDITY STUDY BETWEEN THE DIFFERENTIAL APTITUDE TEST FORM L AND THE WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE FOR CHILDREN" (1966). Electronic Theses & Dissertations. 62.
https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/etd/62