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Clinical utility of Kaufman's “amazingly” short forms of the WAIS–R with educable mentally retarded adolescents
Author(s) -
Nagle Richard J.,
Bell Nancy L.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(199505)51:3<396::aid-jclp2270510312>3.0.co;2-a
Subject(s) - psychology , wechsler adult intelligence scale , dyad , short forms , mentally retarded , comparability , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , cognition , mathematics , combinatorics
This study investigated the comparability between three “amazingly” short forms of the WAIS‐R (a dyad, triad, and tetrad) suggested by Kaufman, Ishikuma, and Kaufman‐Packer (1991) and the complete battery among a sample of 114 educable mentally handicapped adolescents. Results indicate that the short forms are highly correlated with the complete battery Full Scale IQs, and all three short forms yielded scores, on average, within 2 points of the complete battery. Analyses at an individual level revealed that more than 90% of the sample fell within 3 SEM (9 points) of the FSIQ for all three short forms. Overall results are consistent with previous studies and support the use of these “amazingly” short forms.