title: Short form of Spanish version of the WISC-IV for intelligence assessment in elementary school children.
abstract: In educational settings, quick assessments of intelligence are often required to screen children with potential special needs. The WISC-IV is administered individually and takes between one and two hours to complete. Given its widespread use in Spain, a short-form of the Spanish version is likely to be of use to professionals. The goal of this research was to develop a short form of the WISC-IV that can be performed in approximately half an hour. Data obtained in 100 elementary school children were analyzed following the criteria of Resnick and Entin (1971) . The results showed that the most accurate estimation of intelligence was achieved with a combination of the Vocabulary, Block Design, Letter-Number Sequencing, and Coding subtests.
authors.affiliation: 1 Faculty of Psychology of the University of Valencia (Spain).
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dasi
authors.forename: Maria J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Soler
authors.forename: Vicente
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bellver
authors.forename: Juan C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Ruiz
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013030:Spain; D014175:Translating; D014888:Wechsler Scales / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*