Validation of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children with a sample of preschool children

✍ Scribed by David A. Lampley; James O. Rust

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 360 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0033-3085
• DOI: 10.1002/1520-6807(198604)23:2<131::aid-pits2310230203>3.0.co;2-s

✦ Synopsis

The validity of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) (Kaufman & Kaufman, 1983) was investigated with a sample of preschool-age children. The sample consisted of 50 subjects aged 2% through 4 who were distributed roughly eqdally by age, sex, and race according to the 1980 census. The validity of the K-ABC was examined using the Slosson Intelligence Test (SIT) (Slosson, 1982) and the Classroom Behavior Inventory-Preschool Form (CBI) (Schaefer & Edgerton, 1978) as criterion measures. The SIT and CBI-Preschool Form Verbal Intelligence Scale were found to correlate significantly (p< .01) with the global scales of the K-ABC. The K-ABC did not differentiate between age or sex groups, but blacks scored lower than whites. The findings are supportive of previous validity studies (Kaufman & Kauf-