A COMPARISON OF THE STANFORD-BINET-IV AND THE WISC-III WITH MILDLY RETARDED-CHILDREN

The Stanford-Binet IV and the WISC-III were administered in counterbal anced order to 31 subjects, aged 11 to 17 years, who were previously i dentified as functioning in the range of mild mental retardation. The correlations among the scores on the two tests were significant, but t he Stanford-Binet IV Composite IQ was higher than the WISC-III Pull Sc ale IQ for 29 of 31 subjects. The results suggest that children identi fied as functioning in the range of mental retardation on the WISC-III could be identified as functioning at a higher level if the Stanford- Binet IV were used. The consistency of the results points to the need for the use of multiple criteria in making decisions regarding educati onal accommodation.