The Stanford-Binet,Fourth Edition: A Small Study of Concurrent Validity

Abstract

To date most studies of construct and concurrent validity of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, Fourth Edition, have employed an established measure of ability as the criterion. Here achievement, assessed by the Wide Range Achievement Test—Revised and the Peabody Individual Achievement Test, was the criterion for establishing concurrent validity. The sample consisted of a naturally occurring group of 21 children referred for learning difficulties. The results provided partial support for the theoretical model of the Stanford-Binet IV. Intercorrelations among individual Stanford-Binet IV and achievement subtest scores were examined to generate explanatory hypotheses for those predictions which were not empirically supported. Finally, correlations between the WISC—R and the achievement measures were compared with those between the Stanford-Binet IV and the achievement measures. Examination shows that the correlations of the Stanford-Binet IV with achievement are as strong as and sometimes stronger than those between the WISC—R and achievement.