Validity and Reliability Findings for an Experimental Short Form of the Wonderlic Personnel Test in an Academic Setting

Abstract

For 225 undergraduates, scores on an untimed experimental short form of the Wonderlic Personnel Test were correlated .285 with grades. Three-week predictive validity against the Wonderlic test was .545 ( n = 86). Three-week test-retest and alternate-form reliabilities for the short form were .658 and .722 ( ns = 86, 85), respectively. The untimed short form is not judged to be superior to the original Wonderlic test in an academic setting.