FACTOR STRUCTURE OF THE WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALES FOR CHILDREN-FOURTH EDITION AMONG REFERRED NATIVE AMERICAN STUDENTS

Factor Structure of the Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Childrenfourth Edition among Referred Native American Students

The Native American population is severely underrepresented in empirical test validity research despite being overrepresented in special education programs and at increased risk for psychoeducational evaluation. The structural validity of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children – Fourth Edition (WISC-IV) was investigated with a sample of 176, six-to-sixteen-year-old Native American childre...

Factor Structure of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - Fourth Edition among Students with Attention Deficit

Structure of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children--Fourth Edition among a national sample of referred students.

The structure of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth Edition (WISC-IV; D. Wechsler, 2003a) was analyzed via confirmatory factor analysis among a national sample of 355 students referred for psychoeducational evaluation by 93 school psychologists from 35 states. The structure of the WISC-IV core battery was best represented by four first-order factors as per D. Wechsler (2003b), ...

Factor Structure of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children: Fourth Edition in Children with ADHD.

OBJECTIVE Recent evidence suggests that the factor structure of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth Edition (WISC-IV) is better explained by a five-factor model rather than the four-factor model in the standardization sample. The current study examined the WISC-IV's factor structure in a sample of children with ADHD. METHOD Participants included 314 children and adolescents wh...

Factor Structure of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children–third Edition among Gifted Students

Factor analysis was applied to the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children–Third Edition (WISC-III) scores of 505 gifted students to evaluate the construct validity of the WISC-III with this population. Multiple criteria were used to determine the number of factors to retain for principal axis extraction. A two-factor solution that roughly mirrored the verbal comprehension and perceptual organ...