The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) is a gold standard used in intellectual assessment globally and across India for assessing children’s intellectual ability. Use the WISC-IVINDIA to obtain a valid and comprehensive profile of a child’s cognitive strengths and weaknesses, in order to ensure timely and appropriate intervention.
Descriptions:
The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) is a gold standard used in intellectual assessment globally and across India for assessing children’s intellectual ability. Use the WISC-IVINDIA to obtain a valid and comprehensive profile of a child’s cognitive strengths and weaknesses, in order to ensure timely and appropriate intervention.
WISC-IVINDIA combines the benefits of the most recent version of the WISC and has been adapted to be more relevant for India. Key features include:
Culture appropriate items
Norms for children in India
Increased developmental appropriateness
Increased emphasis on composite scores
Increased attention to Working Memory and Processing Speed
More user-friendly administration and scoring
Reflects current theory and practice of cognitive assessment of children
New Subtests of the WISC-IV reflect current clinical knowledge and practice
Matrix Reasoning – measures fluid reasoning
Picture Concepts – measures fluid reasoning, perceptual organisation, and categorisation
Letter-Number Sequencing – measures working memory
Word Reasoning – measures reasoning with verbal material
Cancellation – measures processing speed using random and structured animal target forms
India Norms include:
Scaled scores by age
Composite scores and Full Scale IQ
Process Scores
Composite Scores:
It has four composite scores and the Full Scale IQ.
This system incorporates current theory and offers a better understanding of a child’s information processing abilities that will in turn help intervention
It can be used –
To obtain a comprehensive assessment of general cognitive functioning
As part of an assessment to identify learning difficulties, giftedness and cognitive strengths and weaknesses
To guide treatment planning in clinical and educational settings
For research purposes
Pearson Academy India (PAI), the training division of PCTA, conducts learning sessions for WISC-IV India.
Click here to learn more about PAI and register your interest in a future learning session for WISC IV India.
Complete Kit:
Includes administration & technical manual, stimulus book, 25 record forms, 25 response booklets 1 & 25 response booklets 2, block design blocks, symbol search & coding scoring key and cancellation scoring templates with a bag.
ISBN 978938086256
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Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children – Fourth Edition, India (WISC-IVINDIA)
WISC-IVINDIA is a tool with a global presence and regular revisions. It has updated areas of assessment in keeping with the development of children. In India, it is a very welcome tool which gives a detailed, and at the same time, comprehensive measure of a child’s abilities and weaknesses that are strongly correlated with the child’s academic difficulties in varied areas. With India norms, we are able to see how Indian children perform in comparison to their western counterparts.