One of the problems inherent in individual intelligence testing is evaluating and weighting ambiguous verbal responses to test questions. The Comprehension Subtest of the Wechsler-Bellevue Scale Form I seems to offer particular difficulty to testers. The purpose of this study was to determine the amount of agreement exhibited by a number of judges with varying degrees of training and experience in scoring two-hundred and fifty-four actual responses to the last nine items of the Comprehension Subtest.The Wechsler test has been widely used in research 6ince its publication in 1939, and has itself been the subject of study. The results of these various studies have been summarized in reports in 1945 (*) and in 1951 (S).The Comprehension Subtest of the Wechsler-Bellevue consists of ten questions designed to test 'common sense' (4, p. 81). These items are scored by credits of a maximum of 2 points for the best answers, 1 for acceptable responses, and 0 for wrong responses. In administering the test the authors of this study frequently received ambiguous, hard-to-score responses to all but the first item, as for example in item 5.Question 5: "Shoes" Why are shoes made of leather? Answers: Don't tear up easy, look good. Holds better than other material. This study was designed to determine the extent of agreement and disagreement on such ambiguous responses among examiners of varying experience.
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