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Unlike its predecessors, the Fourth Edition of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale (Thorndike, Hagen, & Sattler, 1986a) includes subtest and area standard scores as well as an overall composite standard score. Kaufman's (1979) popular method of profile analysis of intelligence test performance includes examination of differences between scores obtained within a total test profile. These score differences may be interpreted in two ways: the statistical significance of the difference and the ab normality of uniqueness of the difference. Tables are presented to aid in precise interpretation of these score differences at four age levels: 2 to 5 years, 6 to 10 years, 11 to 14 years, and 15 to 18 years. Implications of these data for test interpreta tion are discussed.

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Interpretive Tables for Test Scatter On the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale: Fourth Edition

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