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1. Administration and Scoring Errors on the WISC-IV among Graduate Student Examiners

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Loe, Scott A., Kadlubek, Renee M., and Marks, William J.

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A total of 51 Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fourth Edition (WISC-IV) protocols, administered by graduate students in training, were examined to obtain data describing the frequency of examiner errors and the impact of errors on resultant test scores. Present results were generally consistent with previous research examining graduate students' errors on the previous two editions of the WISC. Students committed errors on 98% of the protocols examined and averaged 25.8 errors per protocol. The most common errors were failure to query verbal responses, assigning too many points to an answer, and failure to record an examinee's response on the test protocol. Errors resulted in inaccurate test composite scores, with the Full Scale IQ and Verbal Comprehension Index most frequently affected. Error rates did not improve significantly over the course of three practice administrations. (Contains 4 tables.)

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2007
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2. Adaptive Behavior Malingering in Legal Claims of Mental Retardation

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Kadlubek, Renee M.

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In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional to put people with mental retardation to death for capital crimes (Atkins v. Virginia, 2002). Justice Scalia dissented, suggesting that mental retardation is a condition easy to feign. The current study examined whether participants provided with the definition of mental retardation and adaptive behavior ("informed malingering group") are any better at malingering having mental retardation than participants not provided with the definitions ("malingering group"). Three groups of participants participated in this study: the control group, the malingering group, and the informed malingering group. All participants completed an intellectual assessment and two adaptive behavior assessments. Results revealed that there were no statistically significant differences in performance on any of the assessments between the two malingering conditions, and both groups over exaggerated their deficits to an extent that their malingering attempts were conspicuous.

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2012
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