Using two concept-usage tasks, some evidence for the predictive validity of Hammill and Irwin's abstraction test for mentally retarded Ss is presented. Ss were EMR and culturally disadvantaged elementary school children. Generally the test predicted fairly well; however, a lack of discriminative power for the population employed was noted.
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