Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children

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Definition of WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE FOR CHILDREN

: an intelligence test for children of elementary- and secondary-school age that tests knowledge and abilities of a verbal nature (as vocabulary, comprehension, and verbal mathematical reasoning) and the application of knowledge and various skills to the performance of specified tasks (as the arrangement of a series of pictures into a meaningful sequence and the assembly of an object given its parts)—abbreviation WISC