The classic text--now updated with a new interpretive approach to the
WAIS?-III
Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence, the classic text from Alan
Kaufman and Elizabeth Lichtenberger, has consistently provided the most
comprehensive source of information on cognitive assessment of adults
and adolescents. The newly updated Third Edition provides important
enhancements and additions that highlight the latest research and
interpretive methods for the WAIS?-III.
Augmenting the traditional "sequential" and "simultaneous" WAIS?-III
interpretive methods, the authors present a new approach derived from
Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory. This approach combines normative
assessment (performance relative to age peers) with ipsative assessment
(performance relative to the person's own mean level). Following
Flanagan and Kaufman's work to develop a similar CHC approach for the
WISC?-IV, Kaufman and Lichtenberger have applied this system to the
WAIS?-III profile of scores along with integrating recent WAIS?-III
literature.
Four appendices present the new method in depth. In addition to a
detailed description, the authors provide a blank interpretive worksheet
to help examiners make the calculations and decisions needed for
applying the additional steps of the new system, and norms tables for
the new WAIS?-III subtest combinations added in this approach.
Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence remains the premier resource
for the field, covering not only the WAIS?-III but also the WJ III?, the
KAIT, and several brief measures of intelligence, as well as laying out
a relevant, up-to-date discussion of the discipline. The new,
theory-based interpretive approach for the WAIS?-III makes this a vital
resource for practicing psychologists, as well as a comprehensive text
for graduate students.
