Wechsler Pre-school & Primary Scale of Intelligence - Third UK Edition (WPPSI-IIIUK)

Now you can have a reliable and valid measure of intelligence in young children that is more age appropriate and user friendly. Long a standard in early childhood ability assessment, the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence™ has been revised to reflect both feedback from users of the WPPSI-R and contemporary advances in the fields of cognitive development, intelligence theory and cognitive neuropsychology.

New Features and Extensive Improvements:

Enhance the measure of fluid reasoning ability
De-emphasis on performance under time constraints
Revisions to WPPSI-R subtests as well as the introduction of new subtests.
Age Appropriate:

Instructions are significantly simplified and testing time shorter
Tasks are more engaging and play like and artwork is more attractive
Subtests are designed according to the nature of cognitive development.
Outstanding Psychometric Properties:

Lower floors and improved ceilings
The age range has been lowered to 2:6 and the scale has been divided into two age groups: 2:6-3:11 and 4:0-7:3
Excellent reliability and validity data.
More User-Friendly:

Examiner instructions and scoring procedures have been simplified to ease administration
The page layout of the stimulus book has been re-formatted to allow the examiner to turn pages without reaching across the table
The Object Assembly layout shield has been eliminated to make the presentation of puzzle pieces less difficult and time consuming.
Enhanced Clinical Utility:
Inclusion of additional clinical group data: learning difficulties, developmental delay, ADHD, intellectually gifted, autistic, expressive language disorder, mixed receptive/expressive language disorder and at risk of developmental delay

UK Standardisation:
The UK sample for the WPPSI-IIIUK offers the most comprehensive sample of child intelligence in the UK. Specifically, this sample accurately represents the most current UK population of children aged 2 years 6 months to 7 years 3 months according to the 2001 UK census data.

Administration: Individual - Ages 2:6-3:11 = 30-40 minutes; Ages 4:0-7:3 = 45-60 minutes