Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment

by Dawn P. Flanagan (St. John's Univ., Jamaica, New York); Samuel O. Ortiz (San Diego State Univ., California)

• ISBN13: 9780471382645
• ISBN10: 0471382647
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

"This volume is designed to help busy mental health professionals quickly acquire the knowledge and skills they need to make optimal use of psychological assessment instruments. Each concise chapter features numerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulleted points, and extensive illustrative material, as well as "Test Yourself" questions that help you to gauge and reinforce your grasp of the information covered." "Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment, Second Edition is updated to include the latest edition of cognitive ability tests as well as the most current comprehensive achievement tests. A new chapter demonstrates the use of the XBA approach in assessing learning disabilities in a manner consistent with the recent reauthorization of IDEA."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Vincent C. Alfonso is Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the Graduate School of Education at Fordham University, New York, New York. Samuel O. Ortiz is Associate Professor of Psychology at St. John's University, Jamaica, New York. Dawn P. Flanagan is Professor of Psychology at St. John's University, Jamaica, New York.

Table of Contents

Series Preface	ix
Overview	1	(46)
How to Organize and Administer a CHC Cross-Battery Assessment	47	(37)
How to Interpret CHC Cross-Battery Data	84	(54)
Additional Issues Related to Organizing and Administering a CHC Cross-Battery Assessment	138	(75)
How to Apply CHC cross-Battery Assessment to Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Individuals	213	(58)
Strengths and Weaknesses CHC Cross-Battery Assessment	271	(23)
Illustrative CHC Cross-Battery Assessment Case Reports	294	(33)
Appendix A CHC Cross-Battery Worksheets	327	(10)
Appendix B Description of Cognitive Ability Tests Within the CHC Framework	337	(12)
Appendix C Evaluation of Cognitive ability Test Reliability	349	(5)
Appendix D Percentile Rank and Standard Score Conversion Table	354	(3)
Appendix E CHC Cross-Battery Data, Normative, and Intracognitive Summary Sheets	357	(3)
Appendix F Definitions of Learning Disability	360	(2)
Appendix G Predicted Achievement Values and Critical Values for Statistical Significance (WJ-R BCA and WJ]R Achievement; WASI FSIQ-4 and WIAT)	362	(14)
Annotated Bibliography	376	(3)
Index	379	(8)
Acknowledgments	387	(1)
About the Authors	387