The Validity of WISC-V Profiles of Strengths and Weaknesses

The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fifth Edition (WISC-V; Wechsler, 2014 ) provides a general intelligence score, representing g, and five index scores, reflecting underlying broad factors. Within person differences between the overall performance across subtests denoted as difference are often used to examine profiles of strengths weaknesses. In this study, validity such was examined Dutch WISC-V. line with previous studies, factors explained little variance in scores. A simulation study showed that variation scores also reflected factor variance. further revealed that, consequence, significant discrepancy an score accompanied only 40%–74% cases by on factor. Overall, these results provide support thereby clinical use WISC-V profiles.