| Abstract: | REVIEWS STUDIES IN WHICH CLINICAL INTELLIGENCE TESTS ARE ABBREVIATED TO SAVE TESTING TIME. SERIOUS METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS ARE EVIDENT: SAMPLES ARE OFTEN SMALL, UNREPRESENTATIVE, AND HETEROGENEOUS IN COMPOSITION; AND SHORT-FORM VALIDITY IS SYSTEMATICALLY OVERESTIMATED. IT IS ARGUED THAT PRESENT STATEMENTS OF THE PROBLEM DO NOT LEAD TO A UNIQUE SOLUTION. THE GENERAL REQUIREMENT THAT AN ABBREVIATED TEST SHOULD SAVE TIME WHILE RETAINING MAXIMUM VALIDITY CANNOT BE SATISFIED IN THE ABSENCE OF A STATEMENT ABOUT THE RELATIVE UTILITY OF "TIME SAVED" AND "VALIDITY LOST." (65 REF.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
