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Extended Report For Self-Help For Male Wisc Examiners By Pretest Exposure To Children, Richard H. Dana, Richard D. Back
Extended Report For Self-Help For Male Wisc Examiners By Pretest Exposure To Children, Richard H. Dana, Richard D. Back
Regional Research Institute for Human Services
As an effort to compensate for a previously reported female examiner effect, four male examiners spent 15 minutes with each of 16 male and 16 female third grade children prior to WISC administrations. Four female examiners administered the WISC to equal numbers of male and female children. No female examiners effects were found. Under these conditions male and female examiners obtained similar Full Scale WISC IQ scores, although the male children had higher full scale scores. PIQ was significantly higher that VIQ and girls evidenced the greatest VIQ-PIQ difference. These results are congruent with literature that implicates both sex of …