Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence

The classic text--now updated with a new interpretive approach to the WAIS?-III Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence, the classic text from Alan Kaufman and Elizabeth Lichtenberger, has consistently provided the most comprehensive source of information on cognitive assessment of adults and adolescents. The newly updated Third Edition provides important enhancements and additions that highlight the latest research and interpretive methods for the WAIS?-III. Augmenting the traditional "e;sequential"e; and "e;simultaneous"e; WAIS?-III interpretive methods, the authors present a new approach derived from Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory. This approach combines normative assessment (performance relative to age peers) with ipsative assessment (performance relative to the person's own mean level). Following Flanagan and Kaufman's work to develop a similar CHC approach for the WISC?-IV, Kaufman and Lichtenberger have applied this system to the WAIS?-III profile of scores along with integrating recent WAIS?-III literature. Four appendices present the new method in depth. In addition to a detailed description, the authors provide a blank interpretive worksheet to help examiners make the calculations and decisions needed for applying the additional steps of the new system, and norms tables for the new WAIS?-III subtest combinations added in this approach. Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence remains the premier resource for the field, covering not only the WAIS?-III but also the WJ III?, the KAIT, and several brief measures of intelligence, as well as laying out a relevant, up-to-date discussion of the discipline. The new, theory-based interpretive approach for the WAIS?-III makes this a vital resource for practicing psychologists, as well as a comprehensive text for graduate students.

The classic text--now updated with a new interpretive approach tothe WAIS?-IIIAssessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence, the classic text fromAlan Kaufman and Elizabeth Lichtenberger, has consistently providedthe most comprehensive source of information on cognitiveassessment of adults and adolescents. The newly updated ThirdEdition provides important enhancements and additions thathighlight the latest research and interpretive methods for theWAIS?-III.Augmenting the traditional "sequential" and "simultaneous"WAIS?-III interpretive methods, the authors present a new approachderived from Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory. This approachcombines normative assessment (performance relative to age peers)with ipsative assessment (performance relative to the person's ownmean level). Following Flanagan and Kaufman's work to develop asimilar CHC approach for the WISC?-IV, Kaufman and Lichtenbergerhave applied this system to the WAIS?-III profile of scores alongwith integrating recent WAIS?-III literature.Four appendices present the new method in depth. In addition to adetailed description, the authors provide a blank interpretiveworksheet to help examiners make the calculations and decisionsneeded for applying the additional steps of the new system, andnorms tables for the new WAIS?-III subtest combinations added inthis approach.Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence remains the premierresource for the field, covering not only the WAIS?-III but alsothe WJ III?, the KAIT, and several brief measures of intelligenceas well as laying out a relevant, up-to-date discussion of thediscipline. The new, theory-based interpretive approach for theWAIS?-III makes this a vital resource for practicing psychologistsas well as a comprehensive text for graduate students.

Preface to the Third Edition.PART I: Introduction to the Assessmentof Adolescent and Adult Intelligence.CHAPTER 1: IQ Tests: Their History, Use, Validity, andIntelligent Interpretation.CHAPTER 2: Heritability and Malleability of IQ and Attacks onthe IQ Construct.CHAPTER 3: From the Wechsler-Bellevue I to the WAIS-III.PART II: Individual Differences on AgeSocioeconomic Status, and Other Key Variables.CHAPTER 4: Individual Differences for Adolescents and Adults onGender, Ethnicity, Urban-Rural Residence, and SocioeconomicStatus.CHAPTER 5: Age and Intelligence across the Adult Life Span.PART III: Integration and Application ofWAIS-III Research.CHAPTER 6: Research on Administration, Scoring, andRelationships between Wechsler Scales.CHAPTER 7: Factor Analysis of the WAIS-III.CHAPTER 8: Verbal-Performance IQ Discrepancies: ANeuropsychological Approach.CHAPTER 9: Verbal-Performance IQ Discrepancies: AClinical Approach.PART IV: Interpretation of the WAIS-IIIProfile: IQs, Factor Indexes, and Subtest Scaled Scores.CHAPTER 10: Profile Interpretation: What the SubtestsMeasure.CHAPTER 11: WAIS-III Profile Interpretation: Steps1-7.CHAPTER 12: WAIS-III Profile Interpretation: Steps 8 and 9.PART V: Additional Measures ofAdolescent and Adult IQ.CHAPTER 13: Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test(KAIT).CHAPTER 14: Woodcock-Johnson Battery--Third Edition (WJIII) 561CHAPTER 15: Brief Tests of Intelligence and Related Abilities629APPENDIX A: Alternative Approach to Interpreting the WAIS-III:Applying the Theory-Based Flanagan-Kaufman Interpretive Method forthe WISC-IV.APPENDIX B: WAIS-III Interpretive Worksheet.APPENDIX C: Norm Tables for Computing Standard Scores on theGeneral Ability Index (GAI) and the Clinical Clusters.APPENDIX D: Watkins and Canivez's Critique of theKaufman-Lichtenberger Interpretive System and Articulation of a NewTheory-Based Approach to Profile Interpretation.References.Name Index.Subject Index.