Correlations among Scores on Woodcock-Johnson Achievement Subtest (Spanish), WISC—R (Spanish) and Columbia Mental Maturity Scale

Abstract

Spanish translations of the Woodcock-Johnson Achievement Battery, the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children—Revised, and the Columbia Mental Maturity Scale were administered to 30 Puerto Rican first grade pupils. Analysis confirms the concurrent validity of the Spanish versions of WISC—R with Columbia Mental Maturity Scale and the Spanish Woodcock-Johnson achievement subtests. The Spanish WISC—R is a valid and reliable instrument to measure intellectual functioning of Puerto Rican children with Spanish as their preferred mode of communication. Scores on the nonverbal Columbia scale correlate more strongly with the WISC—R Verbal scaled scores and may be used with recently arrived nonEnglish speakers.