Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale IV (WAIS IV): return of the gold standard.

摘要

David Wechsler continues to be the most productive deceased, bow-tied, psychological test developer on the planet. With an oeuvre that has been revised almost as many times as the movie Rocky, Wechsler and his presumably still sentient colleagues Diane L. Coalson and Susan Engi Raiford have released the WAIS-IV. Changing expectations and clinician requirements have raised the ante in the interim between the WAIS-III and the IV, suggesting good reasons for the current revision. In that same interval, Wechsler and company (i.e., Pearson) were also given their first real competition by the still very much alive Dr. Cecil Reynolds and his psy-chometrically well-executed Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales or RIAS (Reynolds & Kamphus, 2003).