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
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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