Evaluation of intelligence is made in many ways by competent experts using appropriate measurement tools from the age of 2. With these evaluations, various decisions are made about the individual.
The copyright of WISC-IV, which was updated in the USA, was acquired by the Turkish Psychologists Association (TPD) in 2008, and it was developed by Öktem and his colleagues as a TÜBİTAK-supported project between 2008 and 2012. Turkish Standardization was completed and started to be implemented in 2013. can be defined as a number, namely IQ'.” While the WISC-R test used before WISC-IV examined intelligence in 3 sections (Performance Intelligence Score, Verbal Intelligence Score and Whole Test Scale Score), the updated WISC-IV test examined intelligence in 5 sections (Verbal Comprehension, Perceptual Reasoning, Working Memory, Processing). It examines Speed and Full Scale Intelligence Score (TÖZP). This test, which can be applied from 6 years old to 16 years and 11 months, is determined according to the child's motivation and speed and can last approximately 1.5-2.5 hours. Evaluation of the test should be handled holistically, with behavioral observations and information received from school and family, regardless of test scores alone.
Thanks to the test, children are evaluated comprehensively, both according to the norms and the distribution of success within themselves, during the test evaluation. is evaluated. The results should be interpreted as solutions to the families' problems, the child's benefit should be focused on, in order to prevent children from being labeled, result-oriented solutions should be taken into consideration, not the result scores, ethical rules should be taken into consideration, and in order to maintain its up-to-dateness and reliability, it should be applied and interpreted only by Psychologists approved by the Turkish Psychologists Association.
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