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Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children | Fourth Edition

Get the 4th edition of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC®-IV) with critical clinical insights into a child's cognitive functioning.

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			<p><a href="/store/usassessments/en/Store/Professional-Assessments/Cognition-%26-Neuro/Wechsler-Intelligence-Scale-for-Children-%7C-Fifth-Edition-/p/100000771.html">WISC&reg;-V is now available. </a></p>

			<p>The WISC-IV provides essential clinical information and insights, enabling you to use your experience, skills and judgment to relate test results to referral questions.</p>

			<h3>Features</h3>

			<ul>
				<li>Improved assessment of Fluid Reasoning, Working Memory, and Processing Speed</li>
				<li>Enhanced clinical validity</li>
				<li>Decreased emphasis on time with fewer time bonuses</li>
				<li>Improved reliabilities and validities</li>
				<li>Improved floors and ceilings on all subtests</li>
				<li>Culturally fair</li>
				<li>Reduced weight and increased portability</li>
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			<h3>Benefits</h3>

			<p>The WISC-IV is designed to meet several goals:</p>

			<ul>
				<li>Expand and strengthen clinical utility to support your decision making</li>
				<li>Develop the four Index Scores as the primary interpretive structure</li>
				<li>Improve the assessment of fluid reasoning, working memory, and processing speed</li>
				<li>Improve subtest reliabilities, floors and ceilings from WISC-III</li>
				<li>Link with the WIAT-II and validate with these measures of memory: Children&#39;s Memory Scale&trade; (CMS&trade;), Adaptive Behavior Assessment System-Second Edition (ABAS&reg;-II), Bar-On Emotional Quotient- Inventory&reg; (Bar-On EQ-i&reg;), Gifted Rating Scales (GRS)</li>
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			<h3>Areas of Assessment</h3>

			<h4>Subtest Changes</h4>

			<p>Three WISC-III subtests have been eliminated from WISC-IV: Object Assembly, Mazes and Picture Arrangement. WISC-III subtests that are now supplemental include Picture Completion, Arithmetic, and Information.</p>

			<h4>New Subtests</h4>

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				<li>Word Reasoning-measures reasoning with verbal material; child identifies underlying concept given successive clues.</li>
				<li>Matrix Reasoning-measures fluid reasoning (a highly reliable subtest on WAIS&reg; -III and WPPSI&trade;-III); child is presented with a partially filled grid and asked to select the item that properly completes the matrix.</li>
				<li>Picture Concepts-measures fluid reasoning, perceptual organization, and categorization (requires categorical reasoning without a verbal response); from each of two or three rows of objects, child selects objects that go together based on an underlying concept.</li>
				<li>Letter-Number Sequencing-measures working memory (adapted from WAIS-III); child is presented a mixed series of numbers and letters and repeats them numbers first (in numerical order), then letters (in alphabetical order).</li>
				<li>Cancellation-measures processing speed using random and structured animal target forms.</li>
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			<p>In addition, new optional recall procedures have been added to the Coding subtest, including free recall, cued digit recall, and cued symbol recall; a coding copy procedure is also included to allow examination of graphomotor abilities apart from paired-associate learning.</p>

			<h4>Improvements to Retained Subtests</h4>

			<ul>
				<li>Vocabulary (picture naming items provide a lower floor, vocabulary words displayed and read aloud)</li>
				<li>Block Design (reduced time bonus, timed and untimed norms)</li>
				<li>Arithmetic (reduced requirement for math knowledge on subtest, no time bonus, no text items, picture counting retained for subtest floor)</li>
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			<h3>Bibliography</h3>

			<p><a class="text-primary-link" href="/content/dam/school/global/clinical/us/assets/wisc-iv/wisc-iv-bibliography.pdf" target="_blank">WISC-IV Bibliography</a></p>

			<h3>Technical Reports</h3>

			<p><a class="text-primary-link" href="/content/dam/school/global/clinical/us/assets/wisc-iv/wisc-iv-technical-report-1.pdf" target="_blank">WISC-IV Technical Report #1: Theoretical Model and Test Blueprint</a></p>

			<p><a class="text-primary-link" href="/content/dam/school/global/clinical/us/assets/wisc-iv/wisc-iv-technical-report-2.pdf" target="_blank">WISC-IV Technical Report #2: Psychometric Properties</a></p>

			<p><a class="text-primary-link" href="/content/dam/school/global/clinical/us/assets/wisc-iv/wisc-iv-technical-report-3.pdf" target="_blank">WISC-IV Technical Report #3: Clinical Validity</a></p>

			<p><a class="text-primary-link" href="/content/dam/school/global/clinical/us/assets/wisc-iv/wisc-iv-technical-report-4.pdf" target="_blank">WISC-IV Technical Report #4: GAI</a></p>

			<p><a class="text-primary-link" href="/content/dam/school/global/clinical/us/assets/wisc-iv/wisc-iv-technical-report-4-1.pdf" target="_blank">WISC-IV Technical Report #4.1: GAI with Canadian Norms</a></p>

			<p><a class="text-primary-link" href="/content/dam/school/global/clinical/us/assets/wisc-iv/wisc-iv-technical-report-5.pdf" target="_blank">WISC-IV Technical Report #5: WISC-IV and Children&rsquo;s Memory Scale</a></p>

			<p><a class="text-primary-link" href="/content/dam/school/global/clinical/us/assets/wisc-iv/wisc-iv-technical-report-6.pdf" target="_blank">WISC-IV Technical Report #6: Using the Cognitive Proficiency Index in Psychoeducational Assessment</a></p>

			<p><a class="text-primary-link" href="/content/dam/school/global/clinical/us/assets/wisc-iv/wisc-iv-technical-report-7.pdf" target="_blank">WISC-IV Technical Report #7: Extended Norms</a></p>

			<p><a class="text-primary-link" href="/content/dam/school/global/clinical/us/assets/wiat-iii/wiat-iii-technical-report-1.pdf" target="_blank">WIAT-III Technical Report #1 &ndash; Conducting Ability-Achievement Discrepancy Analyses Using WISC-IV GAI and WIAT-III</a></p>

			<h3>Articles</h3>

			<p><a class="text-primary-link" href="/content/dam/school/global/clinical/us/assets/wisc-iv/defining-the-role.pdf" target="_blank">Defining the Role of Intellectual and Cognitive Assessment in Special Education</a></p>

			<h3>Presentations</h3>

			<p><a class="text-primary-link" href="/content/dam/school/global/clinical/us/assets/wechsler/wechsler-gai.pdf" target="_blank">Wechsler General Ability Index, GAI, Symposium (APA 2009)</a></p>

			<h3>GAI Utility</h3>

			<p><a class="text-primary-link" href="/content/dam/school/global/clinical/us/assets/wisc-iv/wisc-iv-gai-utility.pdf" target="_blank">Introduction to the General Ability Index (GAI) Utility</a></p>

			<p><a href="/content/school/global/clinical/us/en/campaign/general-ability-index-gai-web-tool.html">Click here</a> to download the WISC-IV General Ability Index Utility</p>
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			<h3>Scoring &amp; Reporting</h3>

			<h4>Four Composite Scores</h4>

			<p>The dual IQ and Index structure from WISC-III has been replaced with a single system of four composite scores:</p>

			<ul>
				<li>Verbal Comprehension</li>
				<li>Perceptual Reasoning</li>
				<li>Working Memory</li>
				<li>Processing Speed</li>
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			<h4>Scoring Software</h4>

			<p>Save time scoring and reporting results with the practical WISC-IV Scoring Assistant and Report Writer software. Generate concise score reports and comprehensive interpretative reports automatically from your PC by simply entering raw scores. The WISC-IV Scoring Assistant and Report Writer are part of the PsychCorpCenter platform, which allows you access to other scoring applications for potential cross battery analysis (including the WIAT II Scoring Assistant and Report Writer for ability/achievement discrepancy analysis).</p>

			<h3>Sample Reports</h3>

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				<li><a href="/content/dam/school/global/clinical/us/assets/wisc-iv/wisc-iv-wiat-iii-score-report.pdf" target="_blank">WISC-IV Scoring Assistant with WIAT-III Sample Report </a></li>
				<li><a href="/content/dam/school/global/clinical/us/assets/wisc-iv/wisc-iv-wiat-ii-scoring-asst.pdf" target="_blank">WISC-IV Scoring Assistant with WIAT-II Sample Report</a></li>
				<li><a href="/content/dam/school/global/clinical/us/assets/wisc-iv/wisc-iv-wiat-ii-scoring-asst.pdf" target="_blank">WISC-IV with WIAT-II Sample Report</a></li>
				<li><a href="/content/dam/school/global/clinical/us/assets/wisc-iv/wisc-iv-wiat-ii-interpretive-parent.pdf" target="_blank">WISC-IV with WIAT-II Writer Interpretive Parent Sample Report--English</a></li>
				<li><a href="/content/dam/school/global/clinical/us/assets/wisc-iv/wisc-iv-wiat-ii-interpretive-parent-spanish.pdf" target="_blank">WISC-IV with WIAT-II Writer Interpretive Parent Sample Report--Spanish</a></li>
				<li><a href="/content/dam/school/global/clinical/us/assets/wisc-iv/wisc-iv-wiat-ii-interpretive-writer.pdf" target="_blank">WISC-IV with WIAT-II Writer Interpretive Sample Report</a></li>
				<li><a href="/content/dam/school/global/clinical/us/assets/wisc-iv/wisc-iv-writer-sample-report.pdf" target="_blank">WISC-IV Writer Sample Report</a></li>
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