Stanford-Binet IV

• Description:
– Point-scale (contrast with age-scale of previous
editions)
– Test composite (M=100, SD=16)
– 4 areas & scores (M=100, SD=16)
– 15 subtests (M=50, SD=8)
Stanford-Binet IV Psychometrics
• Standardization sample
– 5013 subjects
– overrepresentation of upper social class & college-
educated parents
• Weighted norms
• Reliability
– Subtests: .80s to .90s range
– Internal consistency of Composite: .95 to .99
 SB IV Psychometrics (cont.)
• Validity
– Criterion-related validity: median of .70; ranges
from .21 to .90 depending on range of abilities
in specific sample and criterion instrument used
– Construct: Factor analysis
• Support for general ability factor (g)
• Verbal ability consistently supported
• Other factors not consistently supported at all age
levels
 SB IV Administration
• Adaptive testing: testing tailored to
individual test taker
• Use of Vocabulary as “Routing” test
• Basal & Ceiling
 Evaluation
• Reliable & valid measure of overall
intelligence
• Strengths:
– Large standardization sample
– Efforts to eliminate bias
• Weaknesses
– Overrepresentation of upper class in norms
– Not supported by factor analysis at all ages
 Wechsler Scales
Through the Years
Wechsler- WISC (1949) WPPSI (1967)
Bellevue (1939)
WAIS (1955) WISC-R (1974) WPPSI-R
(1989)
WAIS-R (1981) WISC III (1991)

WAIS III (1997)

 Wechsler Scales
• 3 versions: WAIS III(16-89); WISC III(6-16);
WPPSI (3-7)
• Commonalities:
– Verbal & Performance Scales + Full Scale (M=100,
SD=15)
• WAIS & WISC also divided into “indices”
– V & P scales each made up of subscales (M=10, SD=3)
• Most frequently administered IQ tests; “Gold
standard”?
 WAIS III
• Standardization sample: 2450 adults 16-89
divided into 13 age bands
– 1995 census data: age, sex, race/ethnicity,
educational level, geographic region
• How many factors do the Wechsler scales
measure?
– V & P plus four indices
– Are they valid?
 WAIS III Indices
Verbal Working Perceptual Processing
Comprehension Memory Organization Speed

Vocabulary, Arithmetic, Picture Digit Symbol,

Similarities, Digit Span, Completion, Symbol
Information Letter- Block Design, Search
Number Matrix
Sequencing Reasoning
 WISC III
• Standardization sample: 2200 kids 6-16
– 1988 census race/ethnicity, region of country,
parental ed. Level
• Additional testing of African-American & Hispanic
kids to limit bias
• Several validity studies
 WPPSI-R
• Standardization sample: 1700 children in 8 age
groups (1/2 year intervals) between 3 years
and 7 years & one age group 7-0 through 7-3
– Based on 1986 census estimates
• Generally considered to be reliable and valid
– V & FS from preschoolers predictors of 1st grade
achievement, PIQ did not predict achievement