TY - JOUR
T1 - It is the examinee's IQ
AU - Chen, Hsinyi
AU - Pan, Tianshu
AU - Zhu, Jianjun
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 American Psychological Association.
PY - 2016/11/1
Y1 - 2016/11/1
N2 - In response to the question "Whose IQ is it?" raised by McDermott, Watkins, and Rhoad (2014), this study examined the same concern about assessor bias by applying hierarchical linear modeling to a large and representative standardization sample of 2,200 child records in the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fourth Edition (WISC-IV). When differences in child age, gender, ethnicity, parental education level, and some intellectual abilities were cojointly used as covariates to adjust for nonrandom assignment problems, the results revealed that the Level 2 assessor variance was trivial for Full Scale IQ and all WISC-IV scores, ranging from 1%-5%, with the only exception being the Comprehension subtest, which showed a moderate level of between-assessor variance (10%). Evidence shows that WISC-IV scores are valid measures of children's intellectual abilities, with no evidence showing harmful assessor bias.
AB - In response to the question "Whose IQ is it?" raised by McDermott, Watkins, and Rhoad (2014), this study examined the same concern about assessor bias by applying hierarchical linear modeling to a large and representative standardization sample of 2,200 child records in the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fourth Edition (WISC-IV). When differences in child age, gender, ethnicity, parental education level, and some intellectual abilities were cojointly used as covariates to adjust for nonrandom assignment problems, the results revealed that the Level 2 assessor variance was trivial for Full Scale IQ and all WISC-IV scores, ranging from 1%-5%, with the only exception being the Comprehension subtest, which showed a moderate level of between-assessor variance (10%). Evidence shows that WISC-IV scores are valid measures of children's intellectual abilities, with no evidence showing harmful assessor bias.
KW - Assessor variance
KW - Fourth edition (WISC-IV)
KW - Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM)
KW - Wechsler intelligence scale for children
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U2 - 10.1037/pas0000298
DO - 10.1037/pas0000298
M3 - Article
C2 - 26882079
AN - SCOPUS:84957990442
SN - 1040-3590
VL - 28
SP - 1523
EP - 1527
JO - Psychological Assessment
JF - Psychological Assessment
IS - 11
ER -