Can Rural Children Be Tested with WISC-V? Exploring the Factorial Invariance of Intelligence in Chile/?Se Puede Evaluar a Ninos Rurales con WISC-V? Explorando la Invarianza Factorial de la Inteligencia en Chile

The proper and ethical use of psychological tests implies the review of various validity evidences, including the examination of factor invariance, which allows establishing the equivalence and/or exploring the impartiality of the instruments when they are used in different cultural groups. In Chile, the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) has been used massively in urban and rural populations, despite the lack of studies on its psychometric adjustment in the rural group. With a sample of 480 schoolchildren, the present study examined the factor invariance of the WISC-V Scale, verifying if the constructs measured are equivalent and they do not vary depending on the urban or rural origin of the children. The results obtained allow accepting the level of configural invariance and partial metric invariance. Theoretical and practical implications of the use of this scale in Chilean rural population are discussed.