Considerations in Assessment of Learning Aptitude

Purposes
Identify

disability

Issues

and trends

Nature

and definition of intelligence Misuse of tests

Current

practices

Assessment

batteries Adaptive behavior assessment

Sources of information about learning aptitude

School

records (group tests, prior individual tests, developmental and school histories) The student (individual tests and adaptive tests) Teachers (observed learning aptitude current adaptive behavior in nonacademic) Parents (developmental history, learning aptitude, current adaptive in home and community)

Group Tests of Intellectual Performance

Otis

Lennon school ability test (SAI)

Individual Test of Intellectual Performance

Wechsler Intelligence scale for children third edition (p. 216)

Technical

quality Administration considerations Results and interpretation

 Long

term retrieval Short term retrieval Processing speed Auditory processing Visual processing Comprehensive knowledge Fluid reasoning

Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery-Revised Tests of Cognitive Ability

Woodcock-Johnson R
Technical

quality Administrative considerations Results and interpretations

Kaufman assessment battery for children

Stanford-Binet intelligence scale: edition

th 4

Non-Verbal Measures and Other Approaches to Nonbiased Assessment

Potential

bias of traditional measures of intelligence Use with culturally and linguistically diverse students

 Performance

scale of the WISC-III Raven progressive matrices Leiter international performance scale revised Tests of nonverbal intelligence (TONI-3)

Other approaches to nonbiased assessment

System

of multicultural pluralistic assessment Learning potential assessment device

Adaptive Behavior Measures

Usually not directly measured Parents or teachers informants Nonacademic functioning Interviews and/or questionnaires

AAMR adaptive behavior scale school (2nd) (ABS-S:2) Adaptive and maladaptive behaviors 3-18 (or 21 for MR) Technical quality
norm group info and reliability appears adequate Tech quality better than previous edition

Administrative consideration
Questionnaire and interview Training needed for parent scale

 Results

and interpretation 5 factors: personal self-sufficiency, community self-sufficiency, personal-social responsibility, social adjustment, and personal adjustment 10 adaptive skill areas: communication,self care, home-living, social, community use, self-direction, health and safety, functional academics, leisure, and work.

ABS-S:2 cont.

Other Measures of Adaptive Behavior

 Vineland
Three

Adaptive Behavior Scales

scales (2 interview and one classroom) Birth to 18-11 and low-functioning adults About 20 minutes Communication (receptive, expressive, and written) Daily living skills (personal, domestic and community) Socialization (relationships) Motor skills (gross and fine)

 Scales

of Independent Behavior-revised (SIB-R)

Motor

skills Social interaction and communication skills Personal living skills Community living skills

 Weller-Strawser
Social

Scales of Adaptive Behavior for the Learning Disabled

coping Relationships Pragmatic language Production Contains 35 items Limitation classifies students into 2 categories, Mild-moderate or moderate severe and lack of sample group

Behavior Evaluation Scale Revised (ABES-R) 10 adaptive skill areas MR definition

Adaptive