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WAIS-IV

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - Fourth UK Edition (WAIS-IV UK)

Provides you with the most advanced measure of cognitive ability in adolescents and adults

  • Publisher
    Pearson
  • Age range
    16yrs to 90.11
  • Qualification Level
    C
  • Administration Time
    75mins

Full Product Description

The WAIS–IV UK was developed to provide you with the most advanced measure of cognitive ability in adolescents and adults and results you can trust when addressing the changing clinical landscape.

Benefits

  • Designed to assess general cognitive functioning in adults with a variety of neurological conditions.
  • Can be used as part of an assessment to identify
    • learning difficulties
    • intellectual giftedness
    • cognitive strengths and weaknesses
  • Guide treatment planning and placement decisions
  • Provide clinical information for academic and neuropsychological evaluations
  • Deliver reliable and valid data for research purposes

Features

  • Clinical utility
  • Increased developmental appropriateness
    • More efficient administration time
    • Added teaching items to ensure understanding of task
    • Reduced vocabulary–level for verbatim instructions
    • Reduced emphasis on motor demands and timed performance
    • Enlarged visual stimuli
  • Enhanced user friendliness
    • Reduced testing time by an average of 15%
    • Revised instructions for clarity and consistency
    • Redesigned record form Increased portability
    • Expanded sample responses
    • Simplified technical manual organization
    • Included new clinically sensitive supplemental subtests
  • Improved Psychometric Properties
    • Updated norms
    • Improved floors and ceilings
    • Expanded FSIQ range
    • Improved subtest and composite reliability
    • Reduced item bias
  • Updated structural foundations
    • Transitioned from dual IQ to Index Score structure
      • Consistency with WPPSI–III and WISC–IV
      • Fewer Subtests yield FSIQ and 4 Index Scores (VCI, PRI, WMI, & PSI)
    • New measure of fluid intelligence
    • Developed new subtest to measure fluid reasoning (Visual Puzzles and Figure Weights)

Enhanced measures of working memory

  • Revise arithmetic to emphasize WM
  • Revise digit span to emphasize WM (added Digit Sequencing)
  • Retain auditory WM measures on WAIS, visuo–spatial WM Measures on WMS

Improved measure of processing speed

  • Reduce fine motor demands
  • Included an additional supplemental subtest (Cancellation)

New Subtests

Visual Puzzles

  • Contributes to Perceptual Reasoning Composite
  • More reliable measure than Object Assembly
  • Requires no motor skills

Click to see additional Sample Item (84.3KB, JPG)

Figure Weights

  • Contributes to Perceptual Reasoning Composite
  • Measure of quantitative and analogical reasoning
  • Requires no motor skills

Cancellation

  • Contributes to Processing Speed Composite
  • Imbedded Stroop Effect
  • Provides scores for omission and commission errors

 

 

Kit

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - Fourth UK Edition (WAIS-IV UK) Complete Kit in Trolley Backpack

CODE: 9780749169176

Admin Manual, Stimulus Books 1 and 2, Response Books 1 and 2, Pack of 25 Record Forms, Symbol Search Key in envelope, Coding Search Key in envelope, Cancel Scoring Template in envelope, WAIS-IV/WMS-IV Online Training, WAIS-IV US Technical Manual and Block Design Set in a trolley Backpack.

€2201.80 Excl.VAT

Components

Wechsler Standard Block Design Set

CODE: 9780749170424

€76.11 Excl.VAT

WAIS-IV UK Record Forms 25pk

CODE: 9780749150068

€219.43 Excl.VAT

WAIS-IV UK Response Booklet 1 25pk

CODE: 9780749150044

€138.45 Excl.VAT

WAIS-IV UK Response Booklet 2 25pk

CODE: 9780749150051

€83.59 Excl.VAT

WAIS-IV UK Administration Manual

CODE: 9780749150013

€340.43 Excl.VAT

WAIS-IV UK and WMS UK Writer

CODE: 9780749150242

€1044.79 Excl.VAT

WAIS-IV UK Cancel Scoring Key in Envelope

CODE: 9780749150075

€51.18 Excl.VAT

WAIS-IV UK Coding Scoring Key in Envelope

CODE: 9780749150082

€51.18 Excl.VAT

WAIS-IV UK Stimulus Book 1

CODE: 9780749150020

€319.17 Excl.VAT

WAIS-IV UK Stimulus Book 2

CODE: 9780749150037

€279.28 Excl.VAT

WAIS-IV UK symbol search key in envelope

CODE: 9780749150099

€66.14 Excl.VAT

Pearson Product qualification levels

Qualification Level A
(Prior to November 2021, this was known as Qualification Level CL3)

There are no special qualifications to purchase these products.
 

Qualification Level B
(Prior to November 2021, these levels were combined and known as Qualification Level CL2/CL2R)

Tests may be purchased by individuals with:

A master’s degree in psychology, education, speech language therapy, occupational therapy, social work, counselling, or in a field closely related to the intended use of the assessment, and formal training in the ethical administration, scoring, and interpretation of clinical assessments.

OR

Certification by or full active membership in a professional organisation (such as RCOT, RCSLT, BMA, RCN, RCPsych, SASC) that requires training and experience in the relevant area of assessment.

OR

A degree or licence to practice in the healthcare or allied healthcare field.

OR

Formal, supervised mental health, speech/language, occupational therapy, social work, counselling, and/or educational training specific to assessing children, or in infant and child development, and formal training in the ethical administration, scoring, and interpretation of clinical assessments.

OR

Work for an accredited institution


Qualification Level C
(Prior to November 2021, this was known as Qualification Level CL1)

Tests with a C qualification require a high–level of expertise in test interpretation, and can be purchased by individuals with:

A doctorate degree in psychology, education, or a closely related field with formal training in the ethical administration, scoring, and interpretation of clinical assessments related to the intended use of the assessment.

OR

Licensure or certification to practice in a field related to the purchase.

OR

Certification by or full active membership in a professional organisation (such as BPS, ACP–UK, AEP, BNS) that requires training and experience in the relevant area of assessment.

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