The Essentials of WJ III Cognitive Abilities Assessment
Language: English
Pages: 198
ISBN: 0471344664
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidently administer, score, and interpret the WJ III(TM) COG
The most widely used comprehensive assessment system-the Woodcock-Johnson-has been newly separated into two distinct test batteries: Cognitive Abilities and Achievement. The WJ III(TM) COG includes tests of knowledge, reasoning, memory and retrieval, speed, auditory processing, and visual-spatial thinking. To use these tests properly, professionals need an authoritative source of advice and guidance on how to administer, score, and interpret them. Cowritten by the senior author of the Woodcock-Johnson, Essentials of WJ III(TM) Cognitive Abilities Assessment is that source.
Like all the volumes in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, this book is designed to help busy mental health professionals quickly acquire the knowledge and skills they need to make optimal use of major psychological assessment instruments. Each concise chapter features numerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulleted points, and extensive illustrative material, as well as test questions that help you gauge and reinforce your grasp of the information covered.
Essentials of WJ III(TM) Cognitive Abilities Assessment is the only book to provide state-of-the-art guidelines to the Cognitive Abilities portion of the WJ III(TM), with comprehensive instruction on test administration, scoring, and interpretation. The authors also offer expert assessment of the tests' relative strengths and weaknesses, valuable advice on their clinical applications, and several illuminating case studies. This book complements Essentials of WJ III(TM) Tests of Achievement Assessment (Wiley), also cowritten by Dr. Woodcock.
Other titles in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series:
Essentials of WJ III(TM) Tests of Achievement Assessment
Essentials of TAT and Other Storytelling
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Essentials of Individual Achievement Assessment
Essentials of Nepsy Assessment
Essentials of WISC-III and WPPSI-R Assessment
Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment
Essentials of MMPI-A(TM) Assessment
Essentials of Cognitive Assessment with KAIT and Other Kaufman Measures
Essentials of CAS Assessment
Essentials of Nonverbal Assessment
For a complete list of books in our Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, visit us on the Web at: www.essentials.wiley.com
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subject when providing feedback (e.g., if the subject uses “pair” instead of “two.” you should also use “pair”) • Acknowledging correct responses on Item 36 and beyond • Not waiting for the subject to finish answering • Failing to study and understand the queries presented in the Test Book Test 6: Visual Matching • Not following general guidelines for timed tests Test 7: Numbers Reversed • Reading from the Test Record rather than the Test Book • Failing to leave a I-s pause between
the experienced clinician, books in the series will offer a concise, yet thorough way to master utilization of the continuously evolving supply of new and revised instruments, as well as a convenient method for keeping up to date on the tried-and-true measures. The novice will find here a prioritized assembly of all the information and techniques that must be at one’s fingertips to begin the complicated process of individual psychological diagnosis. Wherever feasible, visual shortcuts to
recording even if the subject responds slowly. Turn the page quickly after the last item on each page has been presented by the audio recording. Item Scoring Score correct responses 1, incorrect responses 0. Do not count points for training items or sample items when calculating the number correct. Test 17: Memory for Words Memory for Words (Rapid Reference 2.15) measures auditory short-term memory (Gsm). This test asks the subject to repeat lists of unrelated words in the correct sequence.
entire administration and are periodically recorded in cutoff boxes that appear on the Test Record. Once errors are calculated, the number of errors and the letter corresponding to the Test Stories administered are recorded in the “Software Score Entry” box appearing on the Test Record. If you plan to administer Test 10: Visual-Auditory Learning-Delayed, all of Test 2: Visual-Auditory Learning must be administered, regardless of the number of errors. Additionally, if the delayed portion of this
series of questions in which he had to identify where he would find a specific object and, later, what he would do with a series of specific objects. Overall, Mason obtained a Comprehension-Knowledge score of 89 (86-93), which is ranked at the 24th percentile and classified as Low Average, suggesting that his language development, general fund of information, and ability to reason using lexical knowledge is within normal limits, but below that of 76% of his same-age peers. DON’T FORGET Use the
