WJIII

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WJ-III

• Tests of Cognitive Abilities

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Materials

• Test Books
• Test Records
• Subject Response Booklet
• 2 pencils
• Audio equipment
• Stopwatch
• Clipboard (optional)
• Scoring Compuscore software

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Testing Area

• Select a quite, comfortable room free of
  distractions.
• Sit diagonally at corner of table to allow you to
  view subjects test page and examiners page.
• Establish rapport
• Accommodations made only to minimize impact of
  test taker attributes that are not relevant to
  the construct of focus (AERA)

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Tests

• Standard Format
• Standard with Training Items
• Standard with Subject Response Booklet
• Audio Cassette Presentation
• Timed Presentation
• Controlled Learning Task
• Retest

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Test Administration

• Demonstration

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Scoring

• Install Compuscore
• Obtain Raw Score
• Obtain Age and Grade Equivalents (optional)
• Input raw scores into compuscore

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Score Interpretation

• Raw Score
• AE (Age Equivalent)
• RPI
• PR
• SS
• W

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Categories

• 131 above Very Superior
• 121 to 130 Superior
• 111 to 120 High Average
• 90 to 110 Average
• 80 to 89 Low Average
• 70 to 79 Low
• 69 below Very Low

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Steps to Interpretation

• Determine validity of tests.
• Consider all things facilitating or inhibiting
  performance on the test.
• Start with most global scores first then proceed
  to individual subtests.
• GIA
• Composites/Clusters
• Subtests
• Discrepancies
• Discuss in separate paragraph at end
• Integrate with discussion of Composite area.
• Consider qualitative behavioral observations

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Report

• TABLE OF SCORES Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of
  Cognitive Abilities and Tests of Achievement
• Norms based on age 9-5
• CLUSTER/Test W AE EASY to DIFF RPI PR
  SS(68 BAND)
• GIA (Ext) 507 11-7 9-4 15-1 96/90
  89 118 (115-121)
• VERBAL ABILITY (Ext) 506 11-1 9-3 13-3
  96/90 77 111 (106-116)
• THINKING ABILITY (Ext) 506 13-3 8-10 gt22
  96/90 89 118 (115-122)
• COG EFFICIENCY (Ext) 506 10-10 9-6 12-7
  97/90 81 113 (108-118)
• COMP-KNOWLEDGE (Gc) 506 11-1 9-3 13-3
  96/90 77 111 (106-116)
• L-T RETRIEVAL (Glr) 511 gt22 10-6 gt22
  97/90 99 137 (128-146)
• VIS-SPATIAL THINK (Gv) 506 14-4 8-5 gt25
  95/90 82 114 (108-119)
• AUDITORY PROCESS (Ga) 498 9-2 6-9 14-2
  89/90 47 99 (93-104)
• FLUID REASONING (Gf) 511 13-6 10-2 18-1
  97/90 83 114 (110-118)
• PROCESS SPEED (Gs) 501 10-1 9-2 11-2
  95/90 70 108 (104-112)
• SHORT-TERM MEM (Gsm) 511 12-8 10-1 16-2
  98/90 79 112 (106-118)
• PHONEMIC AWARE 508 14-1 9-0 gt28
  96/90 85 115 (109-122)
• WORKING MEMORY 512 12-8 10-5 15-7
  98/90 87 117 (112-122)
• BROAD ATTENTION 501 10-7 8-9 13-3
  95/90 74 110 (106-114)

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Specific Tests

• Verbal Comprehension 515 13-6 11-4 16-3
  99/90 94 123 (118-129)
• Visual-Auditory Learning 516 gt19 gt19
  gt19 99/90 98 132 (123-142)
• Spatial Relations 506 14-5 8-3 gt25
  95/90 76 110 (105-116)
• Sound Blending 503 10-8 8-0 15-5
  93/90 62 105 (99-111)
• Concept Formation 508 12-3 9-6 16-5
  97/90 73 109 (106-113)
• Visual Matching 500 10-0 9-3 10-9
  95/90 67 107 (102-111)
• Numbers Reversed 502 10-7 8-8 13-1
  94/90 62 105 (98-111)
• Incomplete Words 513 gt33 11-10 gt33
  98/90 95 125 (117-133)
• Auditory Work Memory 522 15-3 12-3 gt22
  99/90 95 125 (121-130)
• Vis-Aud Learn--Delayed 490 - - -
  - - -
• General Information 497 9-0 7-7 10-9
  87/90 43 97 (91-103)
• Retrieval Fluency 505 16-0 6-7 gt30
  94/90 92 121 (116-127)
• Picture Recognition 506 14-3 8-7 gt25
  95/90 75 110 (105-116)
• Auditory Attention 493 7-7 5-7 12-0
  83/90 29 92 (86-97)
• Analysis-Synthesis 513 14-10 11-1 gt20
  98/90 87 117 (110-123)
• Decision Speed 502 10-4 9-1 11-11
  95/90 69 107 (102-113)
• Memory for Words 520 17-6 12-1 gt23
  99/90 84 115 (107-123)
• Rapid Picture Naming 478 7-6 6-8 8-5
  53/90 24 90 (88-91)

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Intra-Cog Discrepancy

• STANDARD SCORES DISCREPANCY Significant
  atDISCREPANCIES Actual Predicted
  Difference PR SD or - 1.50 SD
  (SEE)Intra-CognitiveCOMP-KNOWLEDGE (Gc) 111
  106 5 65 0.37 No
• L-T RETRIEVAL (Glr) 95 109 -14 14
  -1.07 No
• VIS-SPATIAL THINK (Gv) 114 104 10 75
  0.67 No
• AUDITORY PROCESS (Ga) 99 107 -8 28
  -0.58 No
• FLUID REASONING (Gf) 114 106 8 76
  0.69 No
• PROCESS SPEED (Gs) 108 105 3 58
  0.19 No
• SHORT-TERM MEM (Gsm) 112 105 7 71
  0.55 No
• PHONEMIC AWARE 115 106 9 74
  0.64 No
• WORKING MEMORY 117 106 11 82
  0.91 No