[Development of a HAWIE (Hamburg Wechsler Intelligence Test for Adults) short form for examination and assessment].

Abstract

As the use of the HAWIE complete form within the framework of conducting a forensic examination and producing an expert report seemed too extravagant to us, by means of using statistical procedures, we developed a short form consisting of the four sub-tests General Information (AW), Digit Span (ZN), Similarities (GF), and Block Design (MT), which correlated to the power of the long form (rxy = 0.905). 300 HAWIE reports by Ss, which were examined for forensic expert report purposes, served as our basis. Our new test form is to be recommended because of its great time saving factor (about 60%), especially when the question at issue within the framework of a forensic expert report is ability to feel guilt, credibility and fitness for questioning, and the general intellectual performance is to be globally determined. Advantages of our short form are economy, specific representativity and high multiple validity; it provides an ideal measuring instrument for investigators and experts.