ASSESSMENT OF INTELLIGENCE

Chapter Nine

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES

• The complexity of intelligence• The purpose of intelligence testing• What IQ score represent• Classification of IQ scores• The Wechsler scales• Indicators of greater potential on the

Wechsler scales• Other measures of intellectual ability

UNDERSTAND…

INTELLIGENCE

• A general term referring to the ability to learn and to behave adaptively

• In special education, intelligence testing is usually completed by a psychologist.

Purpose of Intelligence Testing

• Social judgment• Level of thinking• Language skills• Perceptual

organization• Processing speed• Spatial abilities

• Common sense• Long and short term

memory• Abstract thinking• Motor speed• Word knowledge

Intelligence Quotient

• When children take intelligence tests they normally receive an overall IQ score.

• The IQ score often represents a measure of the child’s overall potential relative to the norms of his or her age group.

Once an IQ score is calculated, the psychologist can report the

following information:• The child’s present overall levels of

intellectual functioning• The child’s present verbal intellectual

functioning• The child’s nonlanguage intellectual

functioning• Indications of greater intellectual potential

Once an IQ score is calculated, the psychologist can report the

following information:• Possible patterns involving learning style• Possible influence of tension and anxiety on

testing results• Intellectual capability to deal with present

grade-level academic demands• The influence on intellectual functioning as

a contributing factor to a child’s past and present

MEASURES OF INTELLECTUAL

ABILITY

The Wechsler Scales of Intelligence

• One of the most widely used individual evaluation measures of intelligence utilized in today’s schools.

• Consists of two parts:• Verbal test• Performance test

Measures of Intellectual Ability

• The Weschler Scales of Intelligence• The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales- 4th

Edition (SBIS-4)• Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children

(K-ABC)• Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (KBIT)• Slosson Intelligence Test- Revised (SIT-R)

Measures of Intellectual Ability

• Comprehensive Test of Nonverbal Intelligence (CTONI)

• Test of Nonverbal Intelligence, 3rd Edition (TONI-3)

• Otis-Lennon School Ability Test, 7th Edition (OLSAT-7)

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES

• The complexity of intelligence• The purpose of intelligence testing• What IQ score represent• Classification of IQ scores• The Wechsler scales• Indicators of greater potential on the

Wechsler scales• Other measures of intellectual ability

UNDERSTAND…

THE END