“intelligence scale”

The following 2 entries include the term intelligence scale.

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

noun

: an updated version of the Wechsler-Bellevue test having the same structure but standardized against a different population to more accurately reflect the general population abbreviation WAIS

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children

noun

: an intelligence test for children of elementary- and secondary-school age that tests knowledge and abilities of a verbal nature (as vocabulary, comprehension, and verbal mathematical reasoning) and the application of knowledge and various skills to the performance of specified tasks (as the arrangement of a series of pictures into a meaningful sequence and the assembly of an object given its parts) abbreviation WISC


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