Assessment: Individually administered tests of educational achievement

WJ-III

Woodcock Johnson Tests of Achievement – III

Write-Up Descriptions: The WJ-III is a standardized test for assessing achievement skills for reading, oral language, mathematics, written knowledge, and academic knowledge. The mean of the test is 100 with a standard deviation of 15. Scores from 85 to 115 are considered to be in the average range.

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The Woodcock Johnson Tests of Achievement –Third Edition (WJ-III) is a comprehensive individually administered battery for assessing the achievement of children and adults. The WJ-III can be used to assess a wide variety of academic skills: basic reading, reading comprehension, reading fluency, math calculation, math reasoning, math fluency, spelling, written expression, and writing fluency.

Subtests:
Letter-Word Identification
Reading Fluency
Passage Comprehension
Calculation
Math Fluency
Applied Problems
Spelling
Writing Fluency
Writing Samples
Story Recall
Understanding Directions

These give a Broad Reading, Broad Math, and a Broad Written Language Score.

For a sample WJ-III ETR, click here or here.

Filed under: Praxis II Studies
Copyright: May, 2005 - David Profitt