The Buros Institute for Mental Measurements has published the most comprehensive listing of test information in the field of measurement since 1938. The website provides online access to over 2,000 test reviews for a nominal fee per review. The Institute also provides audit and accreditation sevices, psychometric research, consultation, workshops and contractual oversight.
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.
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.
Precursors to current Stanford-Binet:
Amend Psychological Services provides comprehensive psychological services including assessment and evaluation, consultations, counseling, and therapy for children, adolescents, and their families.
This book by authors Alan Kaufman and Elizabeth Lichtenberger 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.
This journal article emphasizes the role of nonverbal ability tests in the identification of academically gifted students.
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.
This website displays the work of Lewis M. Terman's work in intelligence testing.
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.
"The CAS is an assessment battery designed to evaluate cognitive processing. The CAS was developed to integrate theoretical and applied areas of psychological knowledge using a theory of cognitive processing and tests designed to measure those processes. More specifically, the CAS was developed to evaluate Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, and Successive (PASS) cognitive processes of individuals between the ages of 5 and 17 years."
Abilities Tested: Cognitive Processing: "Provides a cognitive processing approach to the measurement of intelligence based on the PASS theory."
"Get more in-depth information with a single, child-friendly battery that assesses the multidimensional nature of abilities in children and adolescents. With attractive and colorful materials designed to hold attention, the individually administered Differential Ability Scales® (DAS®) yields overall cognitive ability and achievement scores and provides a reliable measure of specific abilities."
Abilities Tested: Overall Cognitive Ability, Specific Abilities, Achievement
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.
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.
"KAIT is a multi-subtest battery that thoroughly covers the age range from 11 years to 85+, and is based on the Cattell-Horn model of fluid/crystallized intelligence. The Core battery - consisting of six subtests -can be administered in only one hour. It yields Fluid, Crystallized, and Composite IQs."
Abilities Tested: "General intelligence developed from fluid and crystallized theory."
"Based on research and theory in cognition and neuropsychology, the K-ABC defines intelligence as a child's ability to solve problems using simultaneous and sequential mental processes. K-ABC measures intelligence separately from achievement."
Abalities Tested: Verbal Abilities, Non-verbal Abilities
"K-BIT, a brief, individually administered screener of verbal and nonverbal intelligence, provides more information than any other brief measure of intelligence. Quick and easy to use, K-BIT provides reliable results. By measuring two distinct cognitive functions through two subtests, K-BIT gives a balanced assessment."
Abilities Tested: Verbal Intelligence, Nonverbal Intelligence
"When you need a complete, individual assessment of nonverbal reasoning abilities, the Matrix Analogies Test—Expanded Form (MAT—Expanded Form) can help. You can assess children and young adults with special needs and abilities with this in-depth instrument, or use it as a part of a comprehensive testing battery. Directions are brief and can be communicated nonverbally, if necessary."
Abilities Tested: Nonverbal Reasoning Abilities
"The Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test® -- Individual Administration (NNAT® -- Individual Administration) is the individually administered version of the group-administered NNAT—Multilevel Form and is the latest revision of the Matrix Analogies Test—Expanded Form. Ideal for use with children who do not speak English as their first language, NNAT—Individual Administration is language free and culture fair. No reading, writing, or speaking is required of students; they merely point to the answers they feel are correct. Administer NNAT—Individual Administration as part of an individual evaluation to identify students for gifted and talented programs or to identify children who may have a learning disability and require further diagnostic testing."
Abilities Tested: General Nonverbal Ability
"Get an accurate assessment of nonverbal abilities at three levels with the Raven’s Progressive Matrices. The Raven’s Progressive Matrices—Coloured Progressive Matrices (CPM), Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM), and Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM)—are designed to measure eductive ability, a component of Spearman’s g, related to the ability to educe relationships. Many new features enhance your assessment, including alternative forms of the CPM and SPM., and an extended version of the SPM."
Abilities Tested: Nonverbal Abilities
"The SIT has been a standard in intelligence screening for over 30 years. 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
"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
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.
"This unique language-free format makes the TONI3 ideal for evaluating subjects who have previously been difficult to test with any degree of 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
This article describes how testing isn't always an infallible option when determining whether a child is gifted or not.
This intelligence test evaluates certain abilities educators are interested in for a particular student. Abilities include cognitive abilities, test achievement in reading, math, written language and listening comprehension.
"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."
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.
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: Intelligence
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: Academic Achievement (using the test with the WISC-III allows a comparison for discrepancies between ability and achievement, helpful for diagnosing learning disabilities)
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.
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.
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
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
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.
"Provides a conormed set of tests for measuring cognitive abilities and academic achievement."
Abilities Tested: Cognitive Abilities