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It can also serves as an alternate subtest for the Core Battery Fluid Scale. "Famous Faces" involves "naming people of current or historical fame, based on their photographs and a verbal clue and also serves as an alternate subtest for the Core Battery Crystallized Scale. Rebus Recall involves reading phrases and sentences composed of rebuses that were learned earlier during the administration of Rebus Learning, and finally auditory recall that involves answering literal and inferential questions about news stories that were heard during administration of auditory comprehension.
The test administrator calculates scores for all components, and the final IQ score yields an assessment of both fluid and crystallized as well as general intelligence. "Each of the ten subtests yields age-based scaled scores with a mean of 10 and a standard deviation of 3. Adult norms are age-banded to represent changes in later life.
III. Technical Evaluation
Reliability
Internal Consistency
Core Battery Subtests -- . 87 to.93
Expanded Battery Subtests -- . 71 to.92
Crystallized Scale -- . 95
Fluid Scales -- . 95
Composite Intelligence -- 97
Evidence of reliability
Test-Retest
Core Battery Subtests -- . 72 to.95
Expanded Battery Subtests -- . 63 to.84
Crystallized Scale -- . 94
Fluid Scales -- . 87
Composite Intelligence -- . 94 (KAIT, 2005)
Adequacy of reliability evidence to support potential uses of the test
Because KAIT de-emphasizes response speed and motor proficiency in scoring this makes it especially useful when testing the elderly or other groups where measuring cognitive functioning separately from psychomotor ability is important. (as opposed, for example, young children where psychomotor ability has a higher...
The adequacy of validity evidence to support potential uses of the test, according to the two-factor structure "analyses with the WAIS-R and WISC-R (N = 461) indicate that the KAIT Crystallized and Wechsler Verbal scales are similar (r =.81) but the KAIT Fluid and Wechsler Performance scales represent distinct factors (r =.70). The KAIT Composite IQ correlates highly with the Wechsler FSIQ (.84) and the Stanford-Binet (4th Edition) Composite (.87). The manual reports KAIT profiles for clinical samples including neurologically impaired (left vs. right), clinically depressed, reading disabled, and Alzheimer's-type dementia." (KAIT, 2005)
Summary, Evaluation and Critique
KAIT provides an alternative reading of intelligence, assessing what one does with one's intelligence, if the form of crystallized as well as fluid intelligence. It is especially useful for testing adults, and has shown strong cross-cultural reliability. (Flanagan & McGrew, 1998) Also its supplementary measures allow tests to obtain an estimate of mental functioning for severely impaired adult individuals.
References
Flanagan, D.P., Alfonso, V.C., & Flanagan, R. (1994). A review of the Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test: An advancement in cognitive assessment? School Psychology Review, 23, 512-525.
Flanagan, D.P., & McGrew, K.S. (1998). Interpreting intelligence tests from contemporary Gf-Gc theory: Joint confirmatory factor analysis of the WJ-R and KAIT in a non-White sample. Journal of School Psychology, 36, 151-182.
KAIT. (2005) Official Test Website of the Kaufman Adolescent & Adult Intelligence Test. Retrieved 14 Feb 2005. http://www.agsnet.com/Group.asp?nGroupInfoID=a3650
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