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Commonly Used Testing Instruments (continued)

Source: Duke University Talent Identification Program
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Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT-R)

  • Measures academic achievement
  • Ages 5 to 22.11
  • American Guidance Service, Inc.
  • www.agsnet.com 

Process Skills Ratings Scales (PSRS)

  • Designed for use in obtaining a rating of the student's facility in using process skills that develop ability to think, reason, and search for knowledge independently and to communicate and interact effectively with all members of society.
  • PRO-ED, Inc.
  • www.proedinc.com 

Raven's Progressive Matrices

  • Nonverbal assessment of perception and thinking skills
  • Ages 5 to 11
  • Oxford Psychologists Press, Ltd. [ England]
  • www.opp.co.uk 

Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales

  • Assesses verbal and nonverbal intelligence and memory
  • Ages 3 to 94
  • Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc
  • www3.parinc.com 

Scales for Identifying Gifted Students (SIGS)

  • This standardized, norm-referenced instrument is completed by teachers or parents and provides a method for identifying gifted children.
  • Ages 5 to 18.11
  • PRO-ED, Inc.
  • www.proedinc.com 

Scales for Rating the Behavioral Characteristics of Superior Students

Screening Assessment for Gifted Elementary & Middle School Students (SAGES-2)

  • Used to identify students who are gifted in academics and reasoning
  • Ages 5 to 14.11
  • PRO-ED, Inc.
  • www.proedinc.com 

Slosson Intelligence Test - Revised

  • Estimates general verbal cognitive ability
  • Ages 4 to 65
  • Slosson Educational Publications
  • www.slosson.com 

Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales - 5 th Edition (SB5)

  • Assesses intelligence and cognitive abilities
  • Riverside Publishing
  • www.riverpub.com 

Structure of Intellect Learning Abilities Test (SOI-LA)

  • Assesses a wide variety of cognitive abilities or factors of intelligence
  • Grades 2 to adult
  • Western Psychological Services
  • www.wpspublish.com 

Tests of Mathematical Abilities for Gifted Students (TOMAGS)

  • Designed to identify students who have talent or giftedness in mathematics
  • Grades K to 6
  • PRO-ED, Inc.
  • www.proedinc.com 

Tests of Nonverbal Intelligence (TONI-3)

  • Measure of intelligence, aptitude, abstract reasoning, and problem solving that is completely free of the use of language.
  • Ages 6 to 89.11
  • PRO-ED, Inc.
  • www.proedinc.com 

Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking- Figural (TTCT-F)

  • Identifies and evaluates creative potential
  • Ages Kindergarten to adult
  • Scholastic Testing Service, Inc.
  • www.ststesting.com 

Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test (UNIT)

  • Measure of the general intelligence and cognitive abilities
  • Ages 5-17
  • Riverside Publishing
  • www.riverpub.com 

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-IV)

  • Assesses the cognitive ability of children
  • Ages 6 to 16.11
  • PsychCorp
  • www.PsychCorp.com 

Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence - Third Edition (WPPSI-III)

  • Assesses the intelligence for young children
  • Ages 2.6 to 7.3
  • PsychCorp
  • www.PsychCorp.com 

Wide Range Intelligence Test (WRIT)

Woodcock Johnson III

  • Contains two distinct, co-normed batteries that measure general intellectual ability, specific cognitive abilities, scholastic aptitude, oral language, and academic achievement
  • Ages 2 to 90+
  • Riverside Publishing
  • www.riverpub.com

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