The Woodcock—Johnson Psycho—Educational Battery was administered to 41 learning disabled college students. A modified subtest profile was used to facilitate the examination of the pattern of subtest scores for the Cognitive Factor Cluster Scores. Results indicated that these scores should not be interpreted at face value for this population.
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