Clinical Utility of the Bracken basic Concept Scale as a Preschool Intellectual Screener: Comparison With the Stanford--Binet for African-American Children

Abstract

Investigated the clinical utility of the Bracken Basic Concept Scale (BBCS) as an intellectual screener. The concurrent validity and factor structure of the BBCS and the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale: Fourth Edition (SB-IV) were also investigated. Data from both measures were gathered from 80 African-American preschool children using a counterbalanced test administration design. Results indicated that the BBCS total test score correlated .91 with the SB-IV composite score, evidencing 82% shafted variance. A principal-component factor analysis indicated a three-factor solution for the two instruments, with the BBCS subtests consistently loading higher on the g factor than the SB-IV subtests.