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Amend Psychological Services, PSC (Lexington, KY)

Amend Psychological Services provides comprehensive psychological services including assessment and evaluation, consultations, counseling, and therapy for children, adolescents, and their families. Populations served in our practice include: students with LD, ADHD, or other learning and behavior difficulties; gifted/talented students; special needs students; twice exceptional learners; children experiencing life adjustments associated with divorce, grief and loss, and other family transitions; and, children with chronic illness or chronic pain such as migraines.

Organizations: National

Buros Institute of Mental Measurements

The Buros Institute for Mental Measurements publishes the most comprehensive listing of test information in the field of measurement. The site provides online access to more than 2,000 test reviews. It also provides audit and accreditation sevices, psychometric research, consultation, workshops and contractual oversight.

Center for the Gifted

The Center for the Gifted is nationally known for its successful efforts to provide gifted people with the assistance and encouragement they need to identify, develop, and express their intellectual and creative potentials for the benefit of themselves and society. Services include: counseling and psychotherapy for gifted individuals, couples, and families; gifted identification and psychoeducational assessment; vocational interest testing and career guidance; and presentations and publications focusing on the special needs of people who are gifted.

Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale Test

The SB-5 is the fifth edition and latest version of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales. Expanding on its predecessors' positive features, results from the SB-5 can even more effectively distinguish among the highly gifted. The test can help categorize students as bright, moderately gifted, highly gifted, extremely gifted, or profoundly gifted, depending on the results. This version is tailored to a student's individual cognitive abilities, resulting in a more accurate measurement of ability. For more information on the Stanford-Binet tests, please visit the Nelson Assessment website.

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Printed Materials: Books

Alternative Assessments With Gifted and Talented Students (The Critical Issues in Equity and Excellence in Gifted Education Series)

Written by Joyce VanTassel-Baska, Ed.D., this book provides a concise and thorough introduction to methods for identifying gifted students in the school setting. Including overviews of assessment tools and alternative methods of assessment, as well as pertinent discussions concerning the need to identify gifted and talented students, this book combines research and experience from top scholars in the field of gifted education in a convenient guide for teachers, administrators, and gifted education program directors. Click here to read a review of this book.

Assessing Special Students

Assessment is at the center of all good teaching, and this book is designed to provide a clear, comprehensive guide to the assessment of students with mild disabilities. This book will give you both an understanding of the assessment process and the concrete, practical skills necessary to assess special students successfully so that you can teach them well.

Assessment: In Special and Inclusive Education

The standard for all assessment personnel, this book continues its tradition of evenhanded coverage of formal and informal assessment for the purpose of making educational decisions about students.

Challenging Highly Gifted Learners (The Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education)

Written by Barbara Gilman, this book focuses on many of the issues involved in assessing and challenging highly gifted learners. A thorough discussion of the ceiling problems encountered on common assessments is included, as well as strategies for teachers and parents in planning appropriate education.

Essentials of WISC-III and WPPSI-R Essentials

This book deals with the essentials of two widely used and globally well-known child intelligence tests, the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - Third Edition (WISC-III), for ages 6-16 years, and the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence - Revised (WPPSI-R), for ages 3-7 years. In order to use them properly, professionals need an authoritative source of advice and guidance on how to administer, score, and interpret these tests.

The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy

Nicholas Lemann's The Big Test starts off as a look at how the SAT became an integral part of the college application process. But about a third of the way through the book, Lemann shifts gears and writes about several college students from the late '60s and early '70s. The reasons for the change-up only become clear in the final third, when those same college students, now in their 40s, lead the fight against California's Proposition 209, a 1996 ballot initiative aimed at eliminating affirmative action programs.

Printed Materials: Periodicals/Reports & Studies

The Role of Nonverbal Ability Tests in Identifying Academically Gifted Students: An Aptitude Perspective

This journal article emphasizes the role of nonverbal ability tests in the identification of academically gifted students.

Websites & Other Media: For Fun

Raise Smart Kids

Raise Smart Kids provides a unique range of different math problems to help interested and gifted students develop outstanding capabilities in mathematics. We equip them with thinking skills that provide life-long benefits, and improve their chances of admission to top universities.

Websites & Other Media: Informational

A scientific project locked in time. The Terman Genetic Studies of Genius, 1920s-1950s

This website displays the work of Lewis M. Terman's work in intelligence testing.

Current Use of the Stanford-Binet, Form L-M

This short article discusses current uses of the older form of the Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale (Form L-M) as a supplemental assessment for extremely gifted children. The authors delineate when and why to use this test.

Das-Naglieri Cognitive Assessment System

The CAS is an assessment battery designed to evaluate cognitive processing. It was developed to integrate theoretical and applied areas of psychological knowledge using cognitive processing and tests designed to measure those processes.

Differential Ability Scales (DAS)

Get more in-depth information with a single, child-friendly battery that assesses the multidimensional nature of abilities in children and adolescents. With attractive, colorful materials designed to hold attention, this test yields overall cognitive ability and achievement scores and provides a reliable measure of specific abilities. Abilities Tested: Overall Cognitive Ability, Specific Abilities, Achievement

History of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales: Content and Psychometrics

This article provides an excellent history of the development of the Stanford-Binet series of intelligence tests. It includes information on test structure, content, scoring, correlation among tests and limitations. As yet, some of the best information available on the new SB-5 released in 2003.

Intelligence - Great Ideas in Personality

This page hosted by PersonalityResearch.org, covers the discussion that there are basically two camps on the theory of intelligence: One of general intelligence and one of multiple intelligences.

Slosson Intelligence Test for Children and Adults (original edition)

The SIT is a standard in intelligence screening. In addition to being one of the few measures assessing the infant, toddler, and preschool years (two and above), it can also be used with Severly/Profound Mentally Challenged populations because its IQ scales range from 10 to 164. Abilities Tested: Cognitive Ability

Slosson Intelligence Test for Children and Adults - Revised

The SIT-R is a quick and reliable individual screening test of Crystallized Verbal Intelligence. The Verbal Intelligence domain is shown to have the highest positive correlation with overall mental ability. The SIT-R facilitates screening and provides tentative diagnosis or confirmation of other test results to insure proper placement and remediation. Abilities Tested: Cognitive Ability

Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales (SB-5)

The 2003 publication of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition represents the latest in a series of innovations in the assessment of intelligence and abilities. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, Bulletin I examines the similarities and differences between the different editions of the Stanford-Binet published in the last century. It discusses the development and integration of age-scale and point-scale formats for subtests, the theoretical structure of the test (single versus hierarchical, use of Nonverbal and Verbal domains, and links to the Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory), and changes in item content related to this theoretical structure. The new edition provides greater differentiation in the measurement of abilities, the precursors of which were present in earlier editions.

Test of Nonverbal Intelligence - Third Edition

This language-free format makes the TONI­3 ideal for evaluating subjects who are difficult to test with confidence or precision. It is particularly well suited for individuals who are known or believed to have disorders of communication or thinking such as aphasia, dyslexia, language disabilities, learning disabilities, speech problems, specific academic deficits, and similar conditions that may be the result of mental retardation, deafness, developmental disabilities, autism, cerebral palsy, stroke, disease, head injury, or other neurological impairment. Abilities Tested: Intelligence, Aptitude, Abstract Reasoning, Problem Solving

The Fallibility of IQ Tests

This article describes how testing isn't always an infallible option when determining a child's giftedness.

Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test (UNIT)

The Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test (UNIT) is designed to provide a fair, comprehensive, standardized, and norm-referenced assessment of general intelligence with entirely nonverbal administration and response formats. A major goal in developing UNIT was to ensure fairness for all students, irrespective of race, ethnicity, sex, language, country of origin, and hearing status. Abilities Tested: "General intelligence, measured nonverbally."

Use of the SB5 in the Assessment of High Abilities

Learn about the features of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales (SB5). These include: high ceilings for standard ability scores, continuous testing of abilities in a single instrument from early childhood through old age, Extended IQ scores and gifted composite scores that optimize assessment for gifted program selection.

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - III

The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-III (WISC-III) is a battery of tests for 6 to 17 year olds that evaluates intellectual abilities. These abilities include verbal IQ, performance IQ, full scale IQ, verbal comprehension, perceptual organisation, freedom from distractibility and processing speed. Read about the latest normative information, items, and subtests of this assessment tool, which is the most widely used measure of a child's intellectual ability.

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-IV)

The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC), developed by David Wechsler, is an intelligence test for children between the ages of 6 and 16 inclusive that can be completed without reading or writing. The WISC generates an IQ score. Harcourt has created a meaningful assessment of intellectual ability and cognitive processing which provides more than IQ scores. It provides essential information and critical clinical insights into a child’s cognitive functioning.

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Third Revision (WISC-III)

The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC), developed by David Wechsler, is an intelligence test for children between the ages of 6 and 16 inclusive that can be completed without reading or writing. The WISC generates an IQ score. Abilities Tested: Intellectual Ability

Woodcock-Johnson III Cognitive Battery

These tests are based on the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory of cognitive abilities. The CHC theory provides the most comprehensive framework available for understanding the structure of human cognitive abilities. For use with children and adults.

Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery - Revised, Cognitive Tests

Provides a conormed set of tests for measuring cognitive abilities and academic achievement. Abilities Tested: Cognitive Abilities

Websites & Other Media: Learning Tools

Galileo Education (CO)

Based in northern Colorado, Galileo Education provides testing services locally. It also offers support and services on the web for parents who are homeschooling or supplementing a gifted child's education.