Assessment Chart Summary

Students Name: Asha Creary

Student ID: 77380
Type

Intelligence

Title

Kaufman Assessment
Battery for Children II
(KABC-II)

Usage

Measures cognitive
abilities
Identifies patterns of
cognitive strengths and
weaknesses

Age
Range

Specific Strengths and/or

Weaknesses

3 -18

Culturally Sensitive
Easy to explain to parents

Wechsler Intelligence
Scale for Children-IV
Intelligence
-

assess a childs
intelligence
provides essential
information and critical
6 yearsclinical insights into a
16
years
childs cognitive
and 11
functioning
months
aid in diagnosing
learning disabilities and
other ailments such as
Attention Deficit Hyper
Disorder

Intelligence

Woodcock-Johnson IV
Tests of Cognitive
Ability (WJ-IV)

Diagnoses learning
disabilities and
discrepancies
Assesses growth and
works for individual
planning

Who is qualified to
administer?

age 2 90+

Has a good scoring

methods
helps to understand a
child's more specific needs
Useful for the
understanding children's
cognitive functioning.
Provides reliable and valid
estimates of general
intelligence.
Inconsistencies in scoring
structure.
Thehe total measure makes
interpretations of certain
scores difficult to
understand.
shows bias
Has an extended version to
further assess academic
areas
Has good norm groups
Test book and stimulus
book are all together in one
book and was updated
Has an observation

Educational
Diagnostician
LSSP
Psychologist

Individual graduate
or supervised
Psychologist

Psychologist or
intern
Diagnostician

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Stanford Binet

Provides guidance in
educational and clinical
settings

It can help determine the

level of intellectual and
cognitive functioning
Assists in the diagnosis
of learning disabilities,
developmental delays,
2-85
mental retardation, or
giftedness.
Used for educational
planning and placement,
neuropsychological
assessment, and
research.

Intelligence
-

Achievement

Wechsler Individual
Achievement Test-III
(WIAT-III)

Measures all eight areas

of achievement
4-85
specified by IDEA
legislation as important years of
age
for identifying and
classifying learning
disabilities

Achievement

Woodcock-Johnson III
Tests of Achievement
(WJ-III Achievement)

Achievement

Stanford 10

Measures intellectual
abilities and academic 2-90+
achievement

Measures
achievements from

checklist, which aids with

note taking
lengthy
Questionable reliability
Does not have pages
specifically for score and
analysis (ie. WISCIV/WAIS-IV/WIAT-III)

scores and IQ are limited to

40-160 range
nonverbal knowledge may
require expressive language
does not include all
possible factors of the CHC
mode

Only available in English.

Is considered to be highly
verbal.
Administered individually.
Cannot be administered
more than once a year

Has 4 levels of scoring

(standard percentile rank
proficiency, index, age
and grade equivalent)
Technical manual
updated for scoring

K-12
-

- Multiple test item format

Clinicians
Psychologists

Must be a
qualified
administrator

Administrator
Psychologist
School counselor

Educators

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- Different types of scores
- Scores can be misinterpreted
Given grades above and below 3rd
grade

kinder through 12
grade

ASVAB
Aptitude
-

Career/
Employment

Campbell Interest and

Skill Survey

Millon Clinical
Multiaxial Inventory
(MCMI-III)
Personality

Measures aptitudes for

general academic
areas and career areas
that encompass most
civilian and military
work
Used to determine
specific job
assignments and
enlistment bonuses
Measures interests and
self-estimates of skills
Helps individuals
understand how their
interests and skills
map into the
occupational and
helps them to choose
their career choices
Focus on personality
disorders along with
symptoms associated
with the disorder
Aligned to Millons
theory of personality
and classifications of the
DSM-IV

High
School
and
Post
High
School

15+

18+

Can be used for civilian

and military personnel
Lengthy test
Tests determines
potential careers

Has 200 interests items

Gives two scores
(interests & skills)
Tells which ones to
avoid, pursue, develop or
explore
Newly developed

Quick administration
175 test items (lengthy)
Provides a wide range of
information

Counselor
Test Administer

Counselor
Administrator

Psychologist

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Personality

Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator

Nonpathological
personality inventory
Designed to measure
an individuals
preference according
to the typological
theories of Carl Yung

17+
-

Suicide Scale

Columbia Suicide
Severity

Measures four
subscales of suicide
and includes severity,
intensity, behavior,
and lethality

18-65
-

Post Traumatic
Post-Traumatic
Stress Diagnosis Scale
Stress Disorder
(PTSD)

Detections and
diagnosis of PTSD
Measures the severity
of PTSD symptoms

18-65
-

Attention
Deficit
Disorder
(ADD) /
Attention
Deficit

Conners Scale for

ADHD

Identifies and
diagnosis ADHD

6-18

Provides personality
types and explanations
Very detailed and
descriptive of an
individuals type
Does not measure IQ
Provides strengths and
weaknesses
Limited Research
findings
Shows sensitivity
towards aborted suicide
attempts
Participants also
participated in a
depression studies and
mood disorders

Psychologist
MBTF Certified
Counselor
Vocational
Rehabilitation
National Certified
Counselor
Marriage and
Family
Counseling

Nurses
Doctors

Provides easy diagnosis,

symptom severity,
number of symptoms
present and level of
impairment
B,01 Level
Appears to valid and
reliable
Short assessment
Comparative report:
combines the results of
multiple raters to
highlight commonalities
and different scores
Short assessment
Four rating options

School
Psychologist
Clinicians
Pediatrician
Child protective
agencies
Mental Health

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Hyperactivity
Disorder
(ADHD)
Inventory

Gifted/ Talented Gifted Rating Scale

(G/T)

Adaptive
Behavior

Adaptive
Behavior

Vineland Adaptive
Behavior Scales-II
(VABS-II)

Achenbach System of
Empirically Based
Assessment

Developmental Peabody Developmental

Scale
Motor Scale 2

School
Form
a(GRSDetermines if a
S) 6-13
student can be placed
Presch
in the gifted program
ool-K
(GRSS) 4-6
Measures personal and
social skills needed for
everyday living
Identifies individuals Birthwith developmental
90
delays, autism
spectrum, and other
impairments

Assesses competencies
Assesses adaptive and
maladaptive
6-18
functioning in children
and adults

Measures
developmental and

Birth to
5 years

Compares children to
other children
Progress report
summarizes changes in
childs behavior over
time

Workers

Quick administration (10

min)
Translated in Korean and Teacher (minimal
Chinese
training must be familiar
Does not have teacher
with student)
bias

Has two formats

Uses standard scores
Has easy to read domains
and subdomains and
explanations
Teacher
English and Spanish
versions
Addresses todays special
needs population
It is out of date
Has a large standardized
sample
Manual can be confusing
and hard to follow
Expensive assessment
Valid and reliable

Parents
Youth complete a
self-report
Teachers must
have known
student for a
minimum of 2
months
Trained
Professional

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Behavioral
Scale

Burks Behavior Scale

-

Career/
Employment

Career Ability
Placement Survey
(CAPS)

Developmental
Delays
Cattell infant
intelligence scale

motor skills
Used to distinguish
deficit areas and
design interventional
goals and outcomes
for young children

Measures the
behavioral social and
emotional domains
100 items are
answered on a 5 point
4-6 , 1likert scale
12, and
There are 7 scales to
6-18
pinpoint child
behavior
Two forms required
parent report and
teacher report

Measures vocationally
relevant abilities as
mechanical reasoning, spatial
relations, verbal reasoning,
numerical ability, language
usage, word knowledge, and
perceptual speed and
accuracy

Middle
High
school
student
s
college
student
s and
adults

Measures the intellectual

development of children

3-30
months

Assessing verbalizations and

mobile control

Easy test administration

Quick duration

Easy to use due simplicity

and short time required
Results often resemble with
the clinicians expectations
Outlines suggested
interventions for common
behavioral pathologies

Can be administered
individually or in a group
Has over 300 items
Measure mental
functioning of careers

Has 95 items
Yields mental age score
Minorities were not
included in the
standardized sample
testing

Clinical and
Counseling
Psychologists,
and social
workers,
physicians,
Pastoral
Counselors
Special Education
with Training in
Psychological
Assessment

Counselor
Teacher
Easy to
administer

Counselor or
therapist

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