Essentials of WPPSI™-IV Assessment, 1st Edition – FULL INSTANT DOWNLOAD | PDF DOCX EPUB

Name: Essentials of WPPSI™-IV Assessment
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN-13: 9781118380628
ISBN-10: 1118380622
Addition ISBN: 9781394260652, 9781118869819, 9781306639149, 1118705408, 9781118705407
Author(s): Susan Engi Raiford, Diane L. Coalson, Publisher: John Wiley & Sons P&T, Copyright: 2013
Essentials of WPPSI-IV provides comprehensive, step-by-step guidelines to administering, scoring, and interpreting the latest edition of the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence. This indispensible resource introduces an expanded test structure with additional subtests and composite scores including new uniquely sensitive, age-appropriate subtests to measure working memory and inhibitory control. Each chapter offers valuable advice on clinical applications and features numerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulleted points, and extensive illustrative material, as well as test questions that help you gauge and reinforce your grasp of the information covered. In addition, the Appendix includes checklists, tables, and other supportive material. Ideal for beginning and seasoned clinicians this book Offers an overview of general administration procedures, with an emphasis on those aspects of administration that were identified as more problematic during the scales development. Includes a detailed discussion of administration for each subtest, including suggestions for noting important test behaviors during an assessment. Discusses modifications to item content, administration, and scoring procedures for retained subtests, as well as new subtests and substantial changes to the scales structure. Provides illustrative case studies based on data collected during the scales standardization. This type of information provides highly useful information for ensuring a valid test administration and clinically meaningful interpretation of results, especially for novice users. Includes information that does not appear in the test manual regarding aspects of the childs home environment (e.g., SES related variables) that may be related to test performance. Home environment questionnaire items most critical to interpretation are included in an appendix.