WJ IV Clinical Use and Interpretation: Scientist-Practitioner Perspectives

WJ IV Clinical Use and Interpretation: Scientist-Practitioner Perspectives provides clinical use and interpretive information for clinical practitioners using the Woodcock-Johnson, Fourth Edition (WJ IV). The book discusses how the cognitive, achievement, and oral language batteries are organized, a description of their specific content, a brief review of their psychometric properties, and best practices in interpreting scores on the WJ IV. Coverage includes the predictive validity of its lower order factors and the clinical information that can be derived from its 60 individual subtests. Part II of this book describes the clinical and diagnostic utility of the WJ IV with young children for diagnosing learning disabilities in both school age and adult populations, and for identifying gifted and talented individuals. Additionally, the book discusses the use of the WJ IV with individuals whose culture and language backgrounds differ from those who are native English speakers and who were born and raised in mainstream US culture. Discusses the organization and content of all three batteries in the WJ-IVReviews best practices for score interpretationCovers psychometric properties and predictive validityExplores clinical information that can be extracted from 60 individual subtestsIncludes diagnostic utility for learning disabilities, giftedness, and non-English speaking populations INDICE: Part I. Introduction, Interpretation and Instructional Implications of the WJ IV1 1. Organization, Content, and Psychometric Properties 2. Clinical Interpretation of the WJ IV Tests of Cognitive Abilities, Academic Achievement, and Oral Language 3. A Special Validity Study of the WJ IV: Acting on Specific Abilities Evidence 4. Use and Interpretation of WJ IV Online Scoring 5. Instructional Implications from the WJ IV Tests of Cognitive Abilities 6. Instructional Implications from the WJ IV Tests of Academic Achievement, and Oral Language 7. Strengths and Weaknesses of the WJ IV Part II. Clinical and Diagnostic Utility of the WJ IV8 8. Use with Young Children 9. Diagnosis of Specific Learning Disabilities in School-Age Children 10. Diagnosis of Specific Learning Disabilities in Adulthood 11. Use in the Diagnosis of Intellectual Disability 12. Use in the Identification of Giftedness 13. Use with Students from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds Part III. Use of the WJ IV in Evidence-based Assessment Approaches 14. Use in Neuropsychological Assessment 15. Use in Cross-Battery Assessment 16. Use in a Response-to-Intervention Service Delivery Model

• ISBN: 978-0-12-802076-0
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 375
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2016
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés