RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PEABODY PICTURE-VOCABULARY TEST REVISED, WIDE-RANGE ACHIEVEMENT-TEST REVISED, AND WESCHLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE FOR CHILDREN REVISED

The present study investigated the relationship of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised (PPVT-R) to academic achievement. The PPVT-R was correlated with the Wide Range Achievement Test-Revised (WRAT-R) and the Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R). The subjects consisted of 181 children referred for special education evaluation in Arkansas. The PPVT-R correlated significantly with the Reading, Spelling, and Arithmetic subtests of the WRAT-R. Correlations between the PPVT-R and WISC-R were significant, the WISC-R Verbal score correlating the highest with the PPVT-R. It was concluded that the PPVT-R could be used to screen students for academic underachievement. © 1991.