Validation of the Quick Test for Intelligence Screening of the Elderly
- 1 August 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 29 (1), 167-172
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1971.29.1.167
Abstract
The composite Quick Test (Forms 1, 2, 3) and full WAIS were administered to 50 elderly Ss aged 60 to 100 yr. The purpose of this study was to validate the Quick Test for use with the elderly in order to determine whether the Quick Test could be satisfactorily substituted for the WAIS when intellectual screening is required for the elderly. For this sample, the WAIS Verbal IQ was higher than the Performance IQ in 84% of the cases. Correlation coefficients between the Quick Test and the WAIS Vocabulary, Verbal, Performance and Full Scale IQs ranged between .71 and .95 ( p < .001). These results strongly recommend the use of the Quick Test as a brief screening test to measure general intelligence in the elderly, particularly when administration of lengthy IQ tests is impractical or inefficient.Keywords
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