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Thirty-one upper-division students from a midwestern university volunteered to take the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised, the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale: Fourth Edition, and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised. Correlations were calculated between the scores on the three intelligence tests and these students’ reading, mathematics, and writing scores from the Pre-Professional Skills Tests. Correlations between PPST Reading and the three intelligence tests ranged from.57 to.68; for PPST Mathematics,.40 to.70; and for PPST Writing,.31 to.63. The moderate correlations between PPST and the intelligence tests suggest that the scales of the PPST do not measure unique skills and abilities. The PPVT-R appears to be the best screening and verification instrument.
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Carvajal, H., Kixmiller, J., Knapp, M. et al. The use of the PPST and intelligence tests in teacher education programs. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 29, 192–194 (1991). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03335232
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