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ICPSR 13604 Project on Human Developmentin Chicago Neighborhoods(PHDCN): Wechsler IntelligenceScale for Children-Revised, Wave1, 1994-1997

Felton J. Earls

Harvard Medical SchoolJeanne Brooks-GunnScientific Director. Columbia University.Teacher's College. Center for the Study ofChildren and Families

Stephen W. RaudenbushScientific Director. University of Michigan.

School of Education and Survey ResearchCenter

Robert J. SampsonScientific Director. Harvard University.Department of Sociology

Instrument forICPSR 13604

Inter-university Consortium for

Political and Social Research

P.O. Box 1248

Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106

www.icpsr.umich.edu

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WISC-R

Only ask the following questions

of

subjects who speak either English or S panish.

Do

not

administer h s measure to subjects whose

p n m q

language now

is

any other language

YQU

hould answer the next set

Qf

quesltiom in the language

you h o w

the best that

is the

langnage you know the most

words

in.

1. Which language do

you know

the best?

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Write down exactly what the child says in response to these questions. If the child does not give

a correct answer,

ask

him/her Explain what

you

mean. or Tell me

some

more about it. and

write

a

Q),

indicating that

you

have queried th is answer, on the answer sheet after hisher

original answer, but before the query.

If

the child provides more information but it

is

not a

clearly correct answer, write a

Q)

on the answer sheet, query the response again, and record

hisher answer. In general, if

an

answer is not clearly correct, query it, but

do

not make more

than

2 queries to

any

item. If

an

answer is clearly incorrect or if the child does

not

know the

word, go on to the next item. D i s c o d e t e m

fter 5

consecutive items are

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ven cl&

ancorrect or 'Don't-knowwswers,

. .

I

am going to say some

words.

Listen carefilly and tell me what each

word

means. M a t

does

mean

1

KNIFE

Correct Quew

Something you cut with

To stab

with

Sharp

A

weapon

Has a blade and a handle

Can peel an apple with it

It s sh rp

and

can hurt someone

To

hunt with

It

can kill people

Made of steel

Can eat with it

Incorrect

62

Play with it

Put

it in

your pocket

I

have one

Taken from the W echsler IntelIiPence Scale for Children Revised, New

Y o r k

Psychological

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Knife

2.

llmbrella

3.

Clock

4 Hat

5. Bicycle

6.

Na i l

7. Alphabet

8. Donkey

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Thie f

10. Join

11. B r a v e

12. Diamond

13.

Gamble

14. Nonsense

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16. Contagious

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Nuisance

18. Fable

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24. Espionage

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28. Compel

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29. Affliction

30. Obliterate

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