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FLOWS OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS: TRENDS AND ISSUESOver the past 40 years there has been considerable change in exchange practices. The real story in international academic cooperation is that exchange is actually a reflection of mass education, that is for the most part, foreign...
Vocabulary and Block Design subtests of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) and its Puerto Rican counterpart, the Escala de Inteligencia Wechsler para Adultos (EIWA), were compared in a chronic population of hospitalized Latins and Trans-Caribbean blacks. A matched sample of English and Spanish speakers was administered the WAIS and the EIWA subtests, respectively. A sample of bilingual Latins was administered the EIWA and the WAIS subtests in a systematically counterbalanced order. In both designs, EIWA scores were significantly higher than WAIS scores. The assumption of equivalence of EIWA and WAIS estimates is questioned.
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