Correlations of Scores on the Developing Cognitive Abilities Test and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children—Revised for Intellectually Gifted Students

Abstract

The Spatial Ability area of the Developing Cognitive Abilities Test gave small correlations of .22 with the WISC-R Performance IQ and .32 with the WISC-R Full Scale IQ for 77 intellectually gifted students in Grades 5 to 8. Other correlations among measures were negligible.

Assessing Differential Prediction Bias in the Developing Cognitive Abilities Test across Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Groups

“…Criterion-related validity studies, although few, have shown the DCAT to have statistically significant positive relationships with other ability measures such as the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) and the Slosson Intelligence Test (SIT) (Karnes & Lee, 1984;Karnes, Whorton, Currie, & Cantrall, 1986) but not with the Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale Form LM (Karnes et al, 1986). However, the reported correlations between the DCAT and the WISC-R and SIT were low (< .35) and accounted for less than 12% shared variance.…”