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With recent revisions to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), clinicians need an up-to-date resource covering key intelligence and achievement tests. Presenting contributions by leading scholars and intelligence/achievement test creators, this book creates a truly user-friendly overview of these instruments that allows the reader to immediately grasp the key concepts, updates, and utility of each test covered--and put these into real-life practice in their schools. Its practitioner-focused approach covers the latest tests with explicit instruction on how to best use them with children. Readers can easily compare features of each test through the book's consistent structure. School and clinical psychologists are equipped with the information they need to be consistent with recent updates to IDEA.

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Jack A. Naglieri, PHD, is Professor of Psychology at George Mason University. He has authored or coauthored more than 250 scholarly papers, chapters, tests, and books including Essentials of CAS Assessment and Essentials of WNV Assessment, both published by Wiley. He is the Senior Editor of the Journal of Attention Disorders.

Sam Goldstein, PHD, is a member of the faculty at the University of Utah, maintains a private practice at the Neurology, Learning, and Behavior Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is on staff at the University Neuropsychiatric Institute. He has written twenty-six books and is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Attention Disorders.

Jointly Drs. Naglieri and Goldstein are developing several new assessment instruments and books, and are coeditors of the Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development.

Preface
Foreword
Introduction
Understanding the Strengths and Weaknesses of Intelligence and Achievement Tests
Current Issues in the Assessment of Intelligence, Specific Learning Disability, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Intelligence Tests Measuring Diverse Abilities
The Cognitive Assessment System
The Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children - Second Edition
Development and Application of the Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales (RIAS)
Assessment of Intellectual Strengths and Weaknesses with the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales-Fifth Edition (SB5)
The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth Edition
Wodcock-Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Abilities
Non-Verbal Intelligence Tests
Comprehensive Test of Nonverbal Intelligence - Second Edition
Nonverbal Intellectual and Cognitive Assessment with the Leiter International Performance Scale-Revised (Leiter-R)
Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test (UNIT)
Wechsler Nonverbal Scale of Ability (WNV)
Achievement Tests
The Basic Achievement Skills Inventory (BASI)
Using the Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing (CTOPP) to Assess Reading-Related Phonological Processes
Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS): General Outcomes Measurement for Prevention and Remediation of Early Reading Problems
The Grays Oral Reading Test (Fourth Edition)-- GORT-4
Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement - Second Edition
Wechsler Individual Achievement Test - Second Edition
Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Achievement
Achievement Assessment and Progress-Monitoring with the Wide Range Achievement Test-Fourth Edition
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Practitioner's Guide to Assessing Intelligence and Achievement

Practitioner's Guide to Assessing Intelligence and Achievement

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