E-ISSN : 2733-4538
This study was conducted to examine the validity of the short forms of the Korean Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Third Edition(K-WISC-Ⅲ; Kwak et al., 2001). K-WISC-III data from 294 normal and clinical samples aged 6 ~ 16 were used to examine eight short forms of Doppelt type short forms of the K-WISC-III: seven from Campbell(1998)'s study and one from K-WISC-Ⅲ factor analysis. Data from 294 subjects were randomly divided into two groups. The first group was used to make regressional equations of the eight short forms to estimate IQs. The second group was used to compare the estimated IQs of the eight short forms with IQs determined using the full scale. There were high levels of correlations between estimated IQ and full scale IQ. Mean differences between two IQs were not significant, except for the “Information+Picture Completion” short form. Spearman's Rho correlations between the two IQ categories were very high. The results demonstrated the validity of the short forms of the K-WISC-III.