Correlations of Scores on Verbal and Nonverbal Measures of Intelligence for Intellectually Gifted Students

Abstract

For 80 intellectually gifted students, intelligent quotients and percentiles from the WISC—R, Stanford-Binet, Standard Progressive Matrices, and the Culture-Fair Intelligence Test were correlated. Pearson correlations were larger among the nonverbal measures of intelligence than between the nonverbal and verbal measures.

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