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Abbreviated Version Of The Chinese Wisc-R--A Multiple Regression Study, Ling-Yee Cheng, Pai-Fan Wang, Nai-Wen Quo, Tao-Chang Hsu

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

While the WISC-R is the most widely adopted measurement of intelligence in various eductaional and clinical settings, administering and scoring the ten-subtest battery could be time-consuming, and thus uneconomical, for certain purposes of patient placement or classification. Hence to construct an abbreviated form of WISC-R with satisfactory reliability and validity would be productive for improving efficiency and cutting expenses.The present study analyzed 98 WISC-R protocols with an stepwise multiple regression analysis to identify, from the whole battery, an minimal pool of subtests for making up an abbreviated test such that scores of which would predict the full scale IQ score …