This study compared the performance of a sample of 46 gifted and talented students on the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Ability and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised. The difference between full scale scores was not significant, suggesting concurrent validity between the two full scale measures. Scores obtained on the Reasoning cluster were suspect for some of the gifted and talented subjects, with the altemative cluster of Broad Reasoning providing a more acappraisal of ability.
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