Validation of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children Comparing Anglo and Mexican-American Preschoolers

Abstract

The concurrent validity of the recently developed Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) was assessed by comparing it with the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) using two groups of 30 Anglo and 30 Mexican-American preschoolers as subjects. The correlations between the five K-ABC Scales and the three WPPSI IQs were all positive, most moderately high, with the patterns of high and low relationships very similar for both groups, suggesting that the K-ABC and WPPSI are measuring similar, but not identical, intellectual and achievement factors. No significant differences between the Anglo and Hispanic groups were found for any of the K-ABC scales but the Anglo children scored significantly higher on the WPPSI Verbal IQ than the Hispanics. These results provide evidence that the K-ABC not only has good concurrent validity with the WPPSI but also appears to be a less biased instrument for Mexican-American children.

Validating a cognitive ability testing protocol with Lao children for community development applications.

“…This distinction between the cognitive ability domains of simultaneous and sequential processing has been tested across cultural settings. Results of studies conducted with Lao (Utairatanakit, 1987), Korean (Moon, 1988), Japanese (Kaufman, McLean, Ishikuma, & Moon, 1987), Jordanian (El-Mneizel, 1987), Zairian (Giordani et al, 1996), Native American (Brokenleg, 1983; Mitchell, 1985), Mexican American (Valencia & Rankin, 1986; Whitworth & Chrisman, 1987), and African American children (Hickman & Reynolds, 1986–1987; Naglieri & Hill, 1986) suggest that this dichotomy is a robust one remaining intact through factor analyses.…”