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Validity Studies Of The Leiter International Performance Scale For An International Middle School Population, Marvin E. Jones
Validity Studies Of The Leiter International Performance Scale For An International Middle School Population, Marvin E. Jones
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
The problem of this study was to investigate the construct and short-term predictive validity of the Leiter International Performance Scale (LIPS) for an international population of middle school students in an overseas school. The 141 subjects were 13, 14, and 15 year old students from many nations who came to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with their parents who were professionals, highly skilled technologists, and foreign embassy employees.
The sample represented 15 nations and was functionally divided into four groups: (Group A) Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States; (Group B) Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden; (Group …