An abbreviated form of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children.

GR Clements - Journal of consulting psychology, 1965 - psycnet.apa.org
GR Clements
Journal of consulting psychology, 1965psycnet.apa.org
This study was done in an attempt to determine a valid short form of the Wechsler
Intelligence Scale for Children for a clinical population of reading disability cases. The
subject group included all those children between the ages of 9 and 12, inclusive, referred to
the Child Study Center at George Peabody College for Teachers in 1960 and 1961 as
possible reading disability cases. A four-subtest combination consisting of Similarities,
Object Assembly, Arithmetic, and Picture Arrangement correlated. 947 with Full Scale score …
Abstract
This study was done in an attempt to determine a valid short form of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children for a clinical population of reading disability cases. The subject group included all those children between the ages of 9 and 12, inclusive, referred to the Child Study Center at George Peabody College for Teachers in 1960 and 1961 as possible reading disability cases. A four-subtest combination consisting of Similarities, Object Assembly, Arithmetic, and Picture Arrangement correlated. 947 with Full Scale score. The addition of either Vocabulary or Picture Completion yielded a correlation of. 959. Since there were more than twice as many boys as girls in the sample, the data were analyzed for sex differneces.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
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