Resource guide to accompany Assessment of children.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 751-771) and indexes.
Contents:
[V. 1]. Section I. Foundations: Challenges in Assessing Children: The Process ; Challenges in Assessing Children: The Context ; Ethical, Legal and Professional Issues ; A Primer on Statistics and Psychometrics ; Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children ; Role of the Evaluator in the Assessment Process -- Section II. Theories and Issues in Intelligence: Historical Survey and Theories of Intelligence ; Correlates of Intelligence -- Section III. The Wechsler Tests: Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fifth Edition (WISC-V): Description ; WISC-V Subtests ; Interpreting the WISC-V ; Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence-Fourth Edition (WPPSI-IV): Description ; WPPSI-IV Subtests ; Interpreting the WPPSI-IV -- Section IV. Other Measures of Intelligence: Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales-Fifth Edition (SB5) ; Differential Ability Scales-Second Edition (DAS-II) ; Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Cognitive Abilities (WJ IV COG) -- Section V. Report Writing: Report Writing - [V. 2]. Resource guide to accompany Assessment of children: Appendix A. Tables for the WISC-V -- Appendix B. Tables for the WPPSI-IV -- Appendix C. Tables for the WISC-V and WPPSI-IV -- Appendix D. Tables for the SB5 -- Appendix E. Tables for the DAS-II and WJ IV COG -- Appendix F. Miscellaneous tables - Appendix G. IDEA 2004, Section 504, and ADA -- Appendix H. Challenges of Being an Expert Witness - Appendix I. Assessment of Intelligence with Specialized Measures - Appendix J. Assessment of Academic Achievement - Appendix K. Assessment of Receptive and Expressive Language - References - Name Index.
Summary:
This sixth edition is designed as both a teaching text and a reference source for students and professionals. It is a major revision. Every chapter has been rewritten to make the text more comprehensive, relevant, readable, up to date, and informative.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.