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Types of scores provided

all 8 sub-test scores are added to form the composite score. The written and spoken sections are also added for 2 other composite scores.

These composite scores are converted in quotients (found from a table in the instructor manual) that have a mean of 100 and a SD of 15

Test Scores

Appropriate use of test results

Not intended to be a measure of achievement in specific academic subject matter.

Age and Grade equivalents were considered to have little meaning

Published by Pro Ed Inc

Domains Tested

The most current edition

the TOAL 4 was published in 2007

  • It was normed on 1,671 individuals in 35 states, all between the ages of 12-0 years and 24-11.
  • Demographic characters of the normative sample are keyed to those reported in the census data projections for 2004. Geographic region, gender, ethnicity, Hispanic status, family income level, and parental education were stratified by age.

TOAL-2 was published in 1987

  • Normed by testing 2,628 students from 21 states and 3 Canadian provinces
  • Sampling included groups of typical students from various geographic, ethnic, linguistic and socioeconomic background.

Spoken Language

Written Language

General Language

A Norm Referenced Test

TheTOAL

The purpose of the TOAL

"Compares performance of one or more individuals with that of representative groups of adolescents."

Takes about 60 minutes to administer

Usually given by a SLP or Special Educator

& can be an individual or a group test

TOAL 2 used for adolescence ages 12-18

TOAL 4 covers ages 12-0 through 24-11

Test of Adolescent Language

  • identification of students eligible for special services
  • determining strengths and weaknesses
  • documenting progress

8 Sub-tests for TOAL 2

1. Listening/Vocabulary (LV) *

2. Listening/Grammar (LG) *

3. Speaking/Vocabulary (SV) *

4.Speaking/Grammar (SG) *

5 Reading/Vocabulary(RV)

6. Reading/Grammar (RG)

7.Writing/Vocabulary (WV)

8. Writing/Grammar (WG)

TOAL 4 sub-tests

Word Opposites — examinee is asked for a spoken word of exact meaning of

the word examiner says; the opposite of “Day” is “Night”

Word Derivations — examinee is asked for a missing word at

the end of the second sentence the examiner says, deriving from

a key word; “Laugh. The play was very funny. The people broke out laughing.”

Spoken Analogies — examinee is asked to finish an examiner’s

partial analogous sentence with a word to complete the analogy;

“Birds are to sing, as dogs are to bark.”

Word Similarities — examinee is asked to write a synonym

(correct spelling is irrelevant) for a printed stimulus word; “Pig” is

written after seeing the word “Hog.”

Sentence Combining — examinee is asked to write one

grammatically correct sentence from the given two or more

sentences; “We ate lunch,” and “It was an hour ago” can be

combined into, “We ate lunch an hour ago.”

Orthographic Usage — examinee is asked to write down all the

correct words and punctuation marks to all the sentences given;

“I want to go home” can be corrected to “I want to go home.”

TOAL 2 was tested against the TOAL by100 tests being drawn from the normative sampling at random and were scored against the new test

reliability coefficients: Sub-test ranged from .91 to.97 and the composite scores (written and spoken)were .94 to .99

reliability

validity

Correlating scores between TOAL and TOAL-2 are .83 on Spoken Language Quotients

The sub-test correlations were .44 on average. Proving the construct validity of the assessment

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