Renorming Russell's Version of the Wechsler Memory Scale

Abstract

Several studies of Russell''s version of the Wechsler Memory Scale found that the Logical Memory Scales appeared to be normed too high, indicating a need for renorming. This study produces such a renorming by developing new scale scores and age/education corrections. The scaling used a new method, "reference scale norming". The z scores for 12 tests in the Rennick version of the Halstead-Reitan ''Battery were averaged and used to establish a reference scale. Scale scores for the memory tests were derived from this scale. The results of this study demonstrated that the earlier Logical Memory Scale norms were in fact too high; this error is corrected.