Automated WAIS testing correlated with face-to-face WAIS testing: A validity study

✍ Scribed by David L. Elwood

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1972
• Weight: 428 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-7373
• DOI: 10.1016/s0020-7373(72)80028-2

✦ Synopsis

Automated WAIS results were correlated with criterion measures that consisted of face-to-face WAIS results. A counter-balanced procedure was used in which one group of 20 subjects received automated testing in the first session and then faceto-face testing in the second session while another group of 20 subjects received face-to-face testing first and then automated testing afterwards. The validity coefficients for IQ measures for the automated-first group and the face-to-face-first group were verbal IQ 0-92, 0.95; performance [Q 0.93, 0.88; and full scale IQ 0'95, 0.96. It was concluded that more research needed to be focused into this area to hasten the time when automated procedures would become the clinicalstandard methods for performing certain psychological testing functions.