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WoodcockJohnsonIIITestsofAchievement
Purpose:Designedtomeasureintellectualabilitiesandacademicachievement.

Population:Ages2to90+

Scales:Reading,OralLanguage,Mathematics,WrittenLanguage,Knowledge,SupplementalScores,IntraAchievementDiscrepancies,
andTotalAchievement

Time:6070minutes.

Authors:RichardWoodcock,NancyMather,KevinMcGrew

Publisher:RiversidePublishing

Description:ThisWoodcockJohnsonIIITestsofAchievement(WJIIIACH)updatesandexpandstheWJRTestsofAchievement
(WJR ACH)) with the intension of improving the diagnostic power of the instrument. The WJ III ACH is designed to identify and
describe an individuals current strengths and weaknesses. Three oral tests, a diagnostic spelling test and a measure of phonological
awarenesshavebeenaddedtoevaluatefluencyinreadingandinmath.TheotherWJIIIbattery,theWJIIITestofCognitiveAbilities
(WJIIICOG)isdesignedtomeasuregeneralandspecificcognitivefunctions.Whenthesetwobatteriesareadministeredtogether,they
allow the tester to investigate overunderachievement and to examine patterns of intraindividual discrepancies among cognitive or
achievementareas.ThebatteriesoftheWJIIICOGandWJIIIACHarefurtherclassifiedasstandardorextended.

Scoring:Scoringistobecompletedduringtestingtodeterminebasalandceilinglevels.Incorrectresponsesarerecordedverbatim.Raw
scoresaretotaledandconvertedintoageandgradeequivalents,percentileranks,anddiscrepancyscoreswithuseoftheScoringTables.
CompuscoreandProfilesProgramareusedforallotherscoring.TheWJIIIACHincludesthebasicinterpersonalcommunicationskill
(BICS) scores, and the cognitiveacademic language proficiency (CALP) score. These scores are helpful for determining the ability of
nonnativespeakersofEnglishtofunctionininformalsettingsandacademicsettings(e.g.,collegelectures),respectively.

Reliability:ThemedianreliabilitycoefficientalphasforallagegroupsforthestandardbatteryoftheWJIIIACHfortests1through12
rangedfrom.81to.94.FortheExtendedbattery,mediancoefficientsrangedfrom.76to.91.ThereliabilityscoresfortheWJIIImeetor
exceedstandards.Themedianclusterreliabilitiesaremostly.90orhigher,andtheindividualtestreliabilitiesaremostly.80orhigher,and
canbeusedfordecisionmakingpurposeswithsupportfromothersources.

Validity:Thetechnicalmanualpresentsaconsiderableamountofevidencesupportingthevalidityofscoresfromthetest,notingthatthe
earlier versions of the battery have also been shown to have validity The WJ III ACH content is similar to other achievement tests in
subject areas and to established practice in schools. Growth curves of cluster scores in the technical manual illustrate expected
developmentalprogressions,withsteepgrowthfromage5to25,withadeclinethereafter.Themostextensivelypresenteddatafocuson
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validityevidencefromconfirmatoryfactoranalysesoftestscoresfromparticipantsage6toadult.Theseanalysesshowthattheseven
factorCHCcognitivemodelismorecloselyrelatedtotheobservedinternalstructurethansixothermodelsderivedfromothercommonly
used cognitive batteries. The internal correlations of the entire battery are consistent with relations between areas of achievement and
betweenareasofachievementandabilityclusters.

Norms: The normative samples (preschool, school aged, college and adult) were selected to be representative of the US population,
basedongeographicdistribution,communitysizeandtype,andSES,occupationalstatus,sex,race.

Suggested use: The WJ III Tests of Achievement has uses for educational, clinical or research purposes, for diagnosis, educational
programming,guidance,programevaluation.

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