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1. The Peabody Achievement test is a/an _______ test.
a) group
b) individual
c) neither
2. Do you know what grades students can be who take this test?
a) K-12
b) K-1
c) 7-12
3. List areas of assessment that the Peabody Achievement test cover.
- Students individually tested
- K-12
- Norm reference
Wide range of screening
six content areas
Math General Spelling
Information
100 items Range in difficulty
from preschool - high school
Matching letters Words in isolation
100 multiple choice Measures early skills
(matching numbers)
Concepts (discriminating numbers)
Facts (recognizing Advance concepts
numerals) (geometry & trigonometry)
81 multiple choice
Understand what you read?
Use correct picture ?/4
Reading Reading Written
Recognition Comprehension Expression
K-12
Distinguish, associate,
identify letter & sounds
100 questions Written Expressions
orally K-1
Level 1-2
Social Studies, Science,
Sports, Fine Arts
Prewriting - writing skills
Pass Fail
- Below grade level student equals adjust
starting place of test
- Special education student compares performance
with age or grade peers
- Look at students response
- Watch out for the immature test taker
- Not appropriate for non-english speaking students
- Interpretation of scores needs expertise
- Reliability on written expression not well established
- Expensive materials to administer
- Does not have interpretative limitations
- limited diagnostic potential because of the small
sample of questions
- more follow up necessary to asses deficiencies
- Individual test
- Administered in 60 min.
- Determines academic deficiencies (K-12)
- Norms for Fall / Winter / Spring
- Variety of scores
- Multiple choice / reduces response time
- Students can answer by pointing to correct response,
say the answer, say the number of answer
- Writing required only in written expression
- Reading skills not needed in Math
- Score by hand or machine
- Practical Advantages such as score sheets include the
results from each content area as well as total score
- Examiners make decisions based on results in
individual academic areas
- Especially used for special education
students
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Validating The Peabody Individual Achievement Test Revised www.speechpathology.com/ Feb 7, 2005
The Advantages and Disadvantages of the Peabody Individual...everydaylife.globalpost.com/advantages-disadvantages