Participants will gain the skills necessary to administer, score, and interpret the Woodcock Johnson Fourth Edition (WJ IV) Tests of Achievement and Tests of Oral Language. This session is designed to address the WJ IV Tests of Achievement and Tests of Oral Language features of a carefully constructed organizational plan, new tests and clusters, an updated theoretical model, and customized interpretive analyses.
- Tests of Achievement: The emphasis of this part of the session will be on the completely new configuration and how the new tests and clusters support a broad range of diagnostic assessment needs for a wide variety of evaluation professionals. During the session, participants will be introduced to a procedure for determining relative strengths and weaknesses within tests and clusters from three core areas of achievement.
- Tests of Oral Language: The focus of this part of the session will be on the dedicated set of oral language and language-related measures that comprise an important diagnostic supplement to the WJ IV COG and WJ IV ACH. Participants will understand the use of the battery as stand-alone tests that are useful for oral language assessment, determination of English (and Spanish) language proficiency, and for comparison of strengths and weaknesses among oral language and language related abilities for a more complete reading, writing, or dyslexia evaluation.
PLEASE NOTE: This session is designed for educational evaluation professionals who are currently working in a district or charter school, including those who evaluate/assess for dyslexia.