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Leiter International Performance Scale [1 record]

Record 1 1995-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Documents and Works
  • Psychometry and Psychotechnology
OBS

[A measure of] intelligence and mental age for all individuals 2-18 years old including the deaf, cerebral palsied, non-English speaking, and culturally disadvantaged. Description: multiple item, nonverbal task assessment test of intelligence. The subject is required to match blocks with corresponding characteristic strips positioned in a sturdy wooden frame .... The categories measured are: Concretistics (matching of specific relationships), Symbolic Transformation (judging relationships between two events), Quantitative Discriminations, Spatial Imagery, Genus Matching, Progression Discriminations, and Immediate Recall.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de documents et d'œuvres
  • Psychométrie et psychotechnique
OBS

L'Échelle de Performance de Leiter [...] où la conception non verbale parvient à sa limite, les consignes verbales et gestuelles étant complètement supprimées et les réponses disponibles sous la forme de cartes qu'on peut ajuster sur un porte-cartes. Cette échelle s'applique aux enfants et jeunes gens de deux à dix-huit ans.

OBS

Même si le terme «échelle» est féminin, on dit «le» Leiter (test).

Spanish

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