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Retzlaff, Paul; And Others – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1986
Adults were administered the Shipley Institute of Living Scale (SILS) and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R) as a validation study of previously published procedures for estimating WAIS-R Full Scale intelligence quotients from SILS Vocabulary and Abstraction Scores. Correlations were low and prediction was poor. Partial support…
Descriptors: Adults, Correlation, Prediction, Test Validity
Estimating WAIS IQ from the Shipley Institute of Living Scale Using Continuously Adjusted Age Norms.

Zachary, Robert A.; And Others – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1985
Linear regression techniques and continuous norming were used to develop a procedure to estimate age-adjusted Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale scores from the Shipley Institute of Living Scale. This estimation procedure is recommended for use in clinical and research settings in which a brief but accurate estimate is desired. (Author/BL)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Groups, Estimation (Mathematics), Intelligence Quotient