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...
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