AbstractThe PPVT‐R and the WISC‐R were administered to a sample of 35 students, grades 1 through 8, who were nominated for possible participation in gifted programming. The correlation between the PPVT‐R and Full Scale IQ was .27, which probably was affected by the restricted range of ability assessed. The PPVT‐R showed modest incremental effectiveness beyond informal referral procedures in predicting toward a WISC‐R criter