WAIS-V
Started by WisNeuro
Pearson says administration takes approximately one hour. Using a technician, you would gross approximately $67 for thag hour. Assuming 20/hr for technicians time, and $12 per protocol, you’re making $35/hr. Before you pay rent, or billing, etc.
Pearson's estimates of time are usually very...optimistic. Either that or they assume that most people will discontinue out quickly.
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T-minus 2 months until they try to tell us that they are not releasing the regression formulas again.
T-minus 2 months until they try to tell us that they are not releasing the regression formulas again.
Definitely. I'm surprised that they didn't completely blackbox the scoring kind of like the CVLT-3.
What are the differences?
Features and benefits
- New later start points for those suspected of intellectual giftedness
- Decreased testing time
- New index scores for examinees with expressive or motor problems
- Improved interpretive clarity
- Measure of ability not confounded by expressive language or motor problems
- Separate visual spatial and fluid reasoning indexes
- Purer measure of both constructs
- Improved interpretive clarity
- Comprehensive measurement of working memory
- Auditory, visual, spatial, capacity, and focus of attention
- Task that mimics real-world rate of speech
- New quantitative reasoning index
- Strong indicator of general intelligence and predictor of academic and career success
- New crystallized and fluid expanded index scores
- Broader measures of the two cornerstones of intelligence
- Three new subtests
- Broader construct coverage
Typical Pearson, being greedy as ever.
I'm finally sitting down with the new WAIS for the first time. What are other neuropsychologists' thoughts on it? I often include an 8-subtest WAIS-4 in my assessment batteries (to get FSIQ, GAI, VCI, PRI, PSI, WMI) and am frustrated that I won't be able to get all "primary" index scores from the WAIS-5 with fewer than 10 subtests now. I am happy to see that manual scoring is still available though.
Sanman
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I got curious about this. The rate is slightly higher in my region/MAC for one hour (more or less $70-75 now on the 2024b schedule). It is also less than a $10/hr delta to administer yourself vs a tech. The economics really do hurt given the overhead requirements, especially compared to psychotherapy.
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I'm going to put it off as long as I can. Also, this makes me feel really old. I learned on the WAIS-III and then WAIS-IV, so seeing the WAIS-V gives me the sad. Plus, I hate that Pearson is making it even more expensive to conduct testing because it isn't like reimbursements will jump.
Hey, if certain hacks out there can still use the WAIS-R-NI and get away with it, I'm sure the WAIS-IV is still good for a couple more decades.
What's the n on the normative sample? Pearson has been using smaller samples, relative to PAR and SB5
