ACHIEVEMENT AND INTELLIGENCE TESTS

WORD COMPREHENSION

A domain in WRAT that evaluates letter recognition and word identification without a time limit. The individual reads a series of letters or words aloud.

Sentence Comprehension

(wrat) measures the ability to identify the meaning of words and to comprehend the ideas and information in a sentence using an untimed modified cloze procedure

Spelling

(wrat) measures an individual's ability to write letters and words from dictation without a time limit

Math Computation

(wrat) measures an individual's ability to count, identify numbers, solve simple oral math problems, and calculate written math problems with a time limit

Fluid Reasoning

(sb5) the ability to solve verbal and nonverbal problems using inductive or deductive reasoning

Knowledge

(sb5) a person's accumulated fund of general information acquired at home, school, or work

Quantitative Reasoning

(sb5) an individual's facility with numbers and numerical problem solving, whether with word problems or with pictured relationships

Visual-spatial processing

(sb5) measures an individual's ability to see patterns, relationships, spatial orientations, or the gestalt among diverse pieces of a visual display

Working Memory

(sb5) a class of memory processes in which diverse information stored in short-term memory is inspected, sorted, or transformed

PNLT

to measure general mental ability in a "culture fair" manner

CFIT

Measures fluid intelligence

CFIT

Has three scales that group according to their age

Series

- (cfit) the individual is presented with incomplete, progressive matrices. His task is to select, from among the choices provided, the answer which best continues the series

Classifications

- (cfit) the individual is presented with 5 figures. In scale 2, you must select one which is different from the other four. In scale 3, he must correctly identify two figures which are in some way different from 3 others

Matrices

- (cfit) The task is to correctly complete the design or matrix presented at the left of each row

Conditions (Topology)

- (cfit) Requires the individual to select, from the five choices provided, the one which duplicates the conditions given in the far left box