Overview
Addresses fair assessment practices for at-risk individuals with limited language proficiencies
Examines nonverbal instruments and techniques for assessing cognitive, academic, and social-emotional functioning
Describes assessment vulnerabilities of specific populations likely to be disenfranchised by traditional language-loaded tests
Examines rules for implementing cross-battery assessment using nonverbal instruments
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Context
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Selected Nonverbal Cognitive Tests
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Nonverbal Assessment of Related Abilities
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Keywords
- C-TONI-2 and TONI-4
- Comprehensive Test of Nonverbal Ability
- Cross-battery assessment of nonverbal cognitive ability
- Cultural fairness in nonverbal tests
- General Ability Measure for Adults
- Leiter International Performance Scale-R
- Multicultural assessment of cognition
- Nonverbal assessment of intelligence
- Nonverbal assessment of neuropsychological functioning
- Nonverbal assessment of personality and psychopathology
- Nonverbal assessment of social-emotional functioning
- Nonverbal assessment with deaf and hard of hearing individuals
- Physiological influences on nonverbal assessment
- Psychological influences on nonverbal assessment
- Raven’s Progressive Matrices
- Testing bias in nonverbal assessment
- Universal General Ability Test (UGAT)
- Universal Multidimensional Abilities Scales (UMAS)
- Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Tests-2
- Wechsler Nonverbal Ability Scales
About this book
The second edition of this comprehensive volume presents methods for nonverbal assessment of diverse individuals, such as persons with speech or hearing deficits, limited English skills, or emotional problems. Chapters provide a contemporary context for nonverbal evaluations, accompanied by descriptions of best practices in detecting bias in cognitive tests, multicultural assessment, cross-battery assessment of nonverbal cognitive ability, and psychological and physiological influences on assessment. The book discusses nonverbal assessment of cognition and intelligence as well as related domains, such as academic skills, neurocognitive functioning, personality, and behavior issues. Guidelines for using common nonverbal assessment tools and strategies feature the most up-to-date information on administration and scoring, psychometric properties, and strengths and limitations. Best practices for testing diverse children and adults and using reliable, valid, and fair assessment instruments are emphasized throughout the book.
Featured instruments in the Handbook include:
- The Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test, Second Edition (UNIT2).
- The newest version of the Leiter International Performance Scale (Leiter-3).
- The Wechsler Nonverbal Scale of Ability (WNV).
- The Comprehensive Test of Nonverbal Intelligence, Second Edition (CTONI-2).
- The Test of Nonverbal Intelligence.
- The General Ability Measure for Adults (GAMA).
The Second Edition of the Handbook of Nonverbal Assessment is a must-have resource for researchers and graduate students in school and clinical child psychology, speech and language pathology, educational technology, social work, and related disciplines as well as clinicians, professionals, and in-service educators of diverse students.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
R. Steve McCallum, Ph.D., is Professor of School Psychology in the Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling at the University of Tennessee. Before coming to the University, Dr. McCallum worked for 4 years as a practicing school psychologist. During his 28 years at the University, Dr. McCallum served both as Program Coordinator for the School Psychology Program (3 years) and Department Head (22 years). He contributes to the assessment field as an author or co-author of numerous scholarly works, including books, book chapters, journal articles, tests, and national and international conference presentations (e.g., Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test (UNIT), published by Riverside Publishing Company; a software interpretive program for the UNIT called UNIT Compuscore; Essentials of Nonverbal Assessment, published by John Wiley & Sons; the Handbook of Nonverbal Assessment, published by Kluwer Academic; Plenum Publishers; the Handbook of Reading Assessment, published by Allyn & Bacon/Pearson; the Universal Multidimensional Abilities Scales (UMAS), published by PRO ED). Finally, he is co-founder and contributing editor of the Journal of Psychoeducatonal Assessment. For his contributions to the profession, Dr. McCallum was elected a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 1992.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Nonverbal Assessment
Editors: R. Steve McCallum
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50604-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50602-9Published: 01 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84439-8Published: 09 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50604-3Published: 21 February 2017
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XII, 320
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Child and School Psychology