Practitioner’s Guide to Assessing Intelligence and Achievement

A complete guide to key intelligence and achievement tests and their effective use The tools used in the assessment process have changed dramatically in recent years. School and clinical psychologists need a comprehensive yet focused resource to which they can turn to learn the basics of key intelligence and achievement tests and how to use them in their assessments of children and adults. With its practical and straightforward presentation, Practitioner's Guide to Assessing Intelligence and Achievement provides that resource. Coedited by two well-known and respected scholars and researchers, Jack Naglieri and Sam Goldstein, the content in this timely book combines traditional and new conceptualizations of intelligence as well as ways to measure achievement. Truly readable and user-friendly, this book provides professionals with a single source from which to examine ability and achievement tests along the same general criteria. Each chapter is written by a leading scholar and test developer and is consistently structured for easy comparison of each test that is examined. Coverage includes: The theory underlying each test Description of each test Tips for administering and scoring each test Standardization, norms, and reliability of each scale Practical guidance for the use of each test Correspondence of each test to IDEA A practical tool designed to aid clinical psychologists in understanding the strengths and weaknesses of the various tests presented, Practitioner's Guide to Assessing Intelligence and Achievement provides students and practitioners with the information they need for their practice and testing efforts to be consistent with recent updates in the field and how those assessment instruments relate to changes in the laws that influence test use.

A complete guide to key intelligence and achievement tests andtheir effective useThe tools used in the assessment process have changeddramatically in recent years. School and clinical psychologistsneed a comprehensive yet focused resource to which they can turn tolearn the basics of key intelligence and achievement tests and howto use them in their assessments of children and adults. With itspractical and straightforward presentation, Practitioner's Guideto Assessing Intelligence and Achievement provides thatresource.Coedited by two well-known and respected scholars andresearchers, Jack Naglieri and Sam Goldstein, the content in thistimely book combines traditional and new conceptualizations ofintelligence as well as ways to measure achievement. Truly readableand user-friendly, this book provides professionals with a singlesource from which to examine ability and achievement tests alongthe same general criteria.Each chapter is written by a leading scholar and test developerand is consistently structured for easy comparison of each testthat is examined. Coverage includes:* The theory underlying each test* Description of each test* Tips for administering and scoring each test* Standardization, norms, and reliability of each scale* Practical guidance for the use of each test* Correspondence of each test to IDEAA practical tool designed to aid clinical psychologists inunderstanding the strengths and weaknesses of the various testspresented, Practitioner's Guide to Assessing Intelligence andAchievement provides students and practitioners with theinformation they need for their practice and testing efforts to beconsistent with recent updates in the field and how thoseassessment instruments relate to changes in the laws that influencetest use.

Preface.Foreword.PART I INTRODUCTION.Chapter 1 Understanding the Strengths and Weaknesses ofIntelligence and Achievement Tests (Jack Naglieri, SamGoldstein).Chapter 2 Current Issues in the Assessment of IntelligenceSpecific Learning Disability, and Attention Deficit HyperactivityDisorder (Sam Goldstein, Sean Cunningham).PART II INTELLIGENCE TESTS MEASURING DIVERSEABILITIES.Chapter 3 The Cognitive Assessment System (Jack A. NaglieriCara Conway).Chapter 4 The Kaufman Assessment Battery for ChildrenSecond Edition (Elizabeth O. Lichtenberger, MarleneSotelo-Dynega, and Alan S. Kaufman).Chapter 5 Development and Application of the ReynoldsIntellectual Assessment Scales (RIAS) (Cecil R. Reynolds, R.W.Kamphaus).Chapter 6 Assessment of Intellectual Strengths and Weaknesseswith the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales--Fifth Edition(SB5) (Gale H. Roid, Seth M. Tippin).Chapter 7 The Wechsler Intelligence Scale forChildren--Fourth Edition (Louise O'Donnell).Chapter 8 Wodcock-Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Abilities(Barbara J. Wendling, Nancy Mather, and Fredrick A.Schrank).PART III NON-VERBAL INTELLIGENCE TESTS.Chapter 9 Comprehensive Test of NonverbalIntelligence--Second Edition (Donald D. Hammill, Nils A.Pearson).Chapter 10 Nonverbal Intellectual and Cognitive Assessment withthe Leiter International Performance Scale--Revised (Leiter-R)(Gale H. Roid, Mark Pomplun, and Jamie J. Martin).Chapter 11 Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test (UNIT)(Bruce A. Bracken, R. Steve McCallum).Chapter 12 Wechsler Nonverbal Scale of Ability (WNV) (Jack A.Naglieri, Kimberly Brunnert).PART IV ACHIEVEMENT TESTS.Chapter 13 The Basic Achievement Skills Inventory (BASI)(Achilles N. Bardos, Ph.D., Kathrine M. Koehler-Hak).Chapter 14 Using the Comprehensive Test of PhonologicalProcessing (CTOPP) to Assess Reading-Related Phonological Processes(Richard K. Wagner, Joseph K. Torgesen).Chapter 15 Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills(DIBELS): General Outcomes Measurement for Prevention andRemediation of Early Reading Problems (Kathrine M. Koehler-HakAchilles N Bardos).Chapter 16 The Grays Oral Reading Test (FourthEdition)--GORT-4 (Brian R. Bryant, Minyi Shih, and DianePedrotty Bryant).Chapter 17 Kaufman Test of EducationalAchievement --Second Edition (Elizabeth O.Lichtenberger, Marlene Sotelo-Dynega).Chapter 18 Wechsler Individual Achievement Test--SecondEdition (Kurt T. Choate).Chapter 19 Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Achievement (NancyMather, Barbara J. Wendling).Chapter 20: Achievement Assessment and Progress-Monitoring withthe Wide Range Achievement Test--Fourth Edition (Gale H.Roid, Jon Bos).Author Index.Subject Index.