lesson 3

• The basic concept of the test has not changed for nearly 60 years, making it already outdated.
• Benton Visual Retention Test (BVRT) is a test that can determine the presence of brain damage which is believed to impair visual memory ability.
• Wide Range Achievement Test - 3 (WRAT - 3) is an individual achievement test which supposedly permits an estimate of grade-level functioning in reading, spelling and arithmetic.
• Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test (BVMGT) is used in the assessment of brain damage and consists of 9 geometric figures that the subject is simply asked to copy.
• Leiter Test is a nonverbal intelligence test that can be administered without verbal instructions and is suitable for a variety of special populations.
• Peabody Test is a nonverbal intelligence test that can be administered without verbal instructions and is suitable for a variety of special populations.
• Porteus Test is a nonverbal intelligence test that can be administered without verbal instructions and is suitable for a variety of special populations.
• Woodcock-Johnson III Test is a broad-range individually administered test used in educational settings to assess general intellectual ability, specific cognitive abilities, scholastic aptitude, oral language, and achievement.
• Binet and Wechsler scales are exceptionally good tools for assessing general intelligence of relatively normal individuals, but they have their limitations.
• An array of individual ability tests were created to supplement or provide an alternative or substitute to the Binet and Wechsler Scales.
• Infant Scales include the Brazelton Neonatal Assessment Scale (BNAS) and Gesell Developmental Schedules (GDS).
• The Bayley Scales of Infants Development - Second Edition (BSID - II) is a test for infants between 1 and 42 months (3yrs and 6 mos.).
• The Cattell Infant Intelligence Scale (CIIS) is based on normative developmental data and is designed as a downward extension of the Stanford-Binet Scale for infants and pre-schoolers between 2 and 30 months of age.
• The McCarthy Scales of Children’s Abilities (MSCA) measures ability in children between 2 and 8 years old.
• Concurrent validity data for MSCA are limited, but correlations with Stanford-Binet and WPPSI are quite good.
• PPVT-III was originally developed by L.M. Dunn and I.M. Dunn (1981), and is given to individuals with age range of 2 through 90 years.
• KABC-II is based on several approaches including the neuropsychological model of brain functioning and theories of information processing.
• There are 18 scales, 15 composed of Verbal scale, performance scale and Quantitative scale, into a composite score known as the general cognitive index (GCI).
• The remaining 3 additional scales are composed of memory and motor scales.
• KABC-II is an individual ability test for children between ages 3 and 18 years of age, consisting of 18 subtests combined into five global scales: sequential processing, simultaneous processing, learning, planning, and knowledge.
• CMMS is created to evaluate ability in normal and variously handicapped children from 3 through12 years of age, and is useful in assessing ability in many people with sensory, physical or language handicaps.
• LIPS-R is strictly a performance scale, aiming at providing a nonverbal alternative to the Standford-Binet scale for the age range of 2 to 18 years, and was first developed in the 1930’s and revised most recently in 1997.
• PMT is a poorly standardized nonverbal performance measure of intelligence, first published around the time of World War I, and has served as an important individual ability test.
• KABC-II is also used for the psychoeducational evaluation of learning disabled and other exceptional children and educational planning and placement.
• KABC-II received criticisms such as questionable empirical support for the theory and overemphasis on rote learning at the expense of ability to learn.
• The psychometric properties of MSCA are relatively good.
• KABC-II is intended for psychological, clinical, preschool and neuropsychological assessment as well as research.