title: Validity of the Ward seven-subtest WAIS-III short form in a neuropsychological population.
abstract: An investigation of the Ward 7-subtest short form of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-III (WAIS-III) in a neuropsychological clinic sample finds that the short form retains equivalent psychometric properties to those previously reported for the same short form of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R). The correlations found for the 7-subtest form of the WAIS-III were .95 for Performance IQ, .97 for Verbal IQ, and .98 for Full Scale IQ. The 7-subtest short form of the WAIS-III was also found to perform similarly to its WAIS-R counterpart on other markers of test accuracy. These results support the continued use of the Ward 7-subtest short form of the WAIS-III in a neuropsychological population.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, USA.
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Pilgrim
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Meyers
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bayless
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Whetstone
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014888:Wechsler Scales / Q000706:statistics & numerical data