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Verbal Subtest
- Tests for verbal knowledge
- Measures receptive vocabulary and range of general information about the world (nature, geography, the arts, science, etc.)
- For each question, the examinee sees an array of six full-color illustrations or photographs
- Examiner says a word or asks a general-information question, and the examinee points to the picture that shows the meaning of the word/answer to the question
The Test
Non-Verbal Subtest
- Matrices
Riddles
Advantages/Disadvantages
- For each question, the examinee sees an array of six full-color illustrations or photographs
- Nonverbal measure composed of several types of items involving visual stimuli, both meaningful (people and objects) and abstract (designs and symbols)
- Examiner ask a riddle, and the examinee points to a picture that shows the answer to the riddle (younger ages) or says a single word that answers the riddle
- All items require understanding of relationships among the stimuli, and all are multiple choice w/5 response options to ensure the role of chance guessing is minimized
- The picture answer questions have two clues, the single word answer questions have 3 clue that all must be considered to correctly answer the question
Disadvantage
- The tests for younger children require interpretive caution
- Studies have shown that the test results show a lower mean IQ
- The test allows for directions and answers to be given in other languages, but these groups were excluded from the normative sample--makes the meaning of the scores unclear for these groups
Advantages
- Provides access for English language learners
- Easily administered
- Scored across a wide age range
- Overall, experts agree that it is a well-designed screening test
- It has been revised to exclude any parts that require reading ability
Overview
Age Range: 4-90
Administration: Easel-based
Completion Time: Approximately 20 minutes
Scoring Options: Manual Scoring
Publication Date: 2004
Results of Administration
What is the KBIT^2??
- Our administrations results were fairly high on this intelligence assessment.
- We strayed slightly from the administration procedures because we each wanted to experience the feelings of administering the test to someone else and taking the test ourselves.
o We rotated through each of the roles (examiner and examinee)
- The test varied in difficult by age
Flexibility
History of KBIT^2
Each subtest involves a straightforward task and minimal verbal instruction
Each subtests has the same rules for when to start and stop testing
- Intelligence test most commonly used to determine eligibility for gifted and talented students
- Questions are designed to test innate intelligence rather than learned intelligence
- Questions are based on verbal and non-verbal ability
The examinee’s responses are easy to score objectively
- Alan S. Kaufman is a American psychologist (University of Georgia, Unitversity of Alabama, and Yale)
- Born in 1944
- Has developed several intelligence tests for children
The scores on K-BIT 2 correlate with scores on comprehensive general cognitive and intelligence tests
Teaching is allowed during test administration
- His other tests include the K-ABC, the K-TEA, and the K-SEAL
Key Features
Purpose of the KBIT^2
Scores
- Research shows that normal people perform differently on verbal and noverbal tests
- As you age, this discrpency increases
- Designed for circumstances when a brief measure of intelligence will suffice
Verbal Score
Non-Verbal Scores
- Resemble long-respected measures of intellectual ability
- Measures the person’s ability to solve novel problems, those that are not specifically taught or trained
- The examiner can have 90% percent confidence that the interval includes the individual’s true percentile rank
- This score tells how far the individual’s raw score is from the average raw score of people in the population who are the same age (considering the standard deviation).