Validity of Borgatta and Corsini's Quick Word Test with Young Adults

Bass, Barry A.

doi:10.2466/pr0.1974.34.3.726

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“…In the past, the QWT has shown strong convergent validity with other standard intelligence tests such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scales (see Bass, 1974). Internal consistency estimates on the full test average .91.…”

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Identifying and profiling scholastic cheaters: Their personality, cognitive ability, and motivation.

Williams

Nathanson

Paulhus

2010

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied

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Despite much research, skepticism remains over the possibility of profiling scholastic cheaters. However, several relevant predictor variables and newer diagnostic tools have been overlooked. We remedy this deficit with a series of three studies. Study 1 was a large-scale survey of a broad range of personality predictors of self-reported cheating. Significant predictors included the Dark Triad (Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy) as well as low agreeableness and low conscientiousness. Only psychopathy remained significant in a multiple regression. Study 2 replicated this pattern using a naturalistic, behavioral indicator of cheating, namely, plagiarism as indexed by the Internet service Turn-It-In. Poor verbal ability was also an independent predictor. Study 3 examined possible motivational mediators of the association between psychopathy and cheating. Unrestrained achievement and moral inhibition were successful mediators whereas fear of punishment was not. Practical implications for researchers and educators are discussed.

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Identifying and profiling scholastic cheaters: Their personality, cognitive ability, and motivation.

Williams

Nathanson

Paulhus

2010

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied

212

161

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“…The 100-item power vocabulary test was designed to serve as a substitute for longer measures of cog-nitive ability: The rationale was that verbal knowledge is a strong indicator of overall mental ability, yet, is relatively easy to measure. Substantial validation has accumulated over 40 years, including demonstrations of concurrent validity with standard tests such as the WAIS (e.g., Bass, 1974;Glynn, Okun, Muth, & Britton, 1983). Our participants were given an 8-minute time limit.…”

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Measuring cognitive ability with the overclaiming technique

Paulhus

2004

Intelligence

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The overclaiming technique requires respondents to rate their familiarity with a list of general knowledge items (persons, places, things). Because 20% of the items are foils (i.e., do not exist), the response pattern can be analyzed with signal detection methods to yield the accuracy and bias scores for each respondent. In Study 1, the accuracy index showed strong associations with two standard IQ tests (β = .50-.59). Study 2 replicated the validity of the accuracy index with IQ and showed coherent associations with school grades, peer ratings, and self-ratings. Study 3 ensured that the validity of the accuracy index is invulnerable to a warning about foils. Study 4 showed that validity is maintained even when the ratings are completed at home. The discussion focuses on the advantages of this self-report approach over standard ability tests, namely, minimal stress, lack of time limit, or need for supervision, and flexibility of content.

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“…However, such tests usually provide only limited correlations with the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS), and furthermore, accurate prediction of intellectual level for the individual case is almost never demonstrated. For example, in one series of studies (Bass, 1974;Kendall & Little, 1977;Watson & Klett, 1974, 1975, 25 brief tests of intellectual functioning (and combinations of tests) were correlated with the WAIS Full Scale IQ. These tests rendered correlation coefficients ranging from .22 to .84, with a median coefficient of .69.…”

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An economical method for the evaluation of general intelligence in adults.

Dodrill¹

1981

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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Although psychologists have attempted to identify methods for the rapid evaluation of intelligence, the majority of methods reported in the literature have only limited correlations with longer and better accepted tests. Furthermore, accuracy in prediction for the individual case is rarely demonstrated. In the present study, the ability of the Wonderlic Personnel Test to replicate the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) was evaluated with 120 normal persons divided into principal and cross-validation groups. The correlations between the Wonderlic IQs and the WAIS Full Scale IQs were .93 for the main group and .91 for the cross-validation group. It was noted that the Wonderlic IQ scores were within 10 points of the WAIS Full Scale IQ scores in 90% of the cases. Differences in age, sex, years of education, level of intelligence, and emotional adjustment did not adversely impact on the reproduction of WAIS Full Scale IQs by the Wonderlic.

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Validity of Borgatta and Corsini's Quick Word Test with Young Adults

Cited by 8 publications

References 2 publications

Identifying and profiling scholastic cheaters: Their personality, cognitive ability, and motivation.

Identifying and profiling scholastic cheaters: Their personality, cognitive ability, and motivation.

Measuring cognitive ability with the overclaiming technique

An economical method for the evaluation of general intelligence in adults.

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