A short form of the wechsler intelligence scale for children

✍ Scribed by William H. Simpson; Cecil C. Bridges Jr.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1959
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 76 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(195910)15:4<424::aid-jclp2270150418>3.0.co;2-r

✦ Synopsis

The particular combination of subtests used in the present study (Vocabulary and Block Design) was chosen because a sum of the scores of these two subtests showed high correlation with total weighted scores in the three age groups for which Wechsler@) presents tables of intercorrelations, using McNemar's formula @). The sample in the present study consisted of 120 children referred to the Division of Child Guidance of the Oklahoma City Public Schools. This sample is fairly typical of the population of children who come to the attention of social agencies and child guidance clinics. Table presents descriptive data concerning general intelligence and chronological age of the subjects in this sample.