Riverside's Measures of Basic Psychological Processes
Purpose: Identify cognitive factors contributing to academic failure.
How to Use:
  		• Administer as part of a comprehensive evaluation to determine special education eligibility.
  		• Identify significant intra-cognitive variances and discrepancies from achievement scores.
  		• Review data from all RTI assessments and qualitative input from the multidisciplinary team for a “convergence of evidence.”
  		• Determine student as eligible for special education services or other educational programs or return the student to a lower tier for new and different intervention strategies.
    Woodcock-Johnson III NU Tests of Cognitive Abilities
    Type: Cognitive Battery
    Grades: Pre-K-Adult
    Content: Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) Theory Broad and Narrow Abilities
    The WJ III NU Tests of Cognitive Abilities are a series of individually administered cognitive assessments. Use them to identify strengths and weaknesses in psychological processes and to help your problem solving team rule out other disabilities or noncognitive factors. A detailed understanding of cognitive strengths and weaknesses facilitates the development of targeted interventions and individualized education programs (IEPs). WJ III NU contains the greatest breadth of cognitive abilities of any standardized body of tests, measuring both the broad cognitive factors represented at stratum II of CHC theory, and the narrow abilities represented at stratum III.

     
    Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition (SB5)
    Type: Cognitive battery
    Grades: Pre-K–Adult
    Content: Fluid Reasoning, Knowledge, Quantitative Reasoning, Visual-Spatial Processing, Working Memory
    SB5 is a contemporary assessment with a rich tradition that began in 1916. As a battery of individually administered cognitive tests, SB5 advances the assessment of strengths and weaknesses in the cognitive processes of students being evaluated for learning disabilities. Use SB5 for early prediction of emerging learning disabilities in children as young as four-years-old. Use the special predictive composite scores to identify reading and math disabilities. Verbal and nonverbal composite scores are reported for fair assessment of all students.

     
    Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test™ (UNIT™)
    Type: Nonverbal Cognitive Battery
    Grades: Pre-K–Adult
    Content: Memory and Reasoning
    IDEA requires that assessments used to evaluate special eligibility be “selected and administered so as not to be discriminatory on a racial or cultural basis, and are provided in the child’s native language or other mode of communication.” However, many assessments are not available in the native languages of today’s learners. Nonverbal assessment provides the solution. UNIT is an individually administered measure of memory and reasoning with completely nonverbal administration and item response formats. All test materials are culturally and ethnically sensitive. Use it to promote fairness, equity, social justice, and bias reduction in your RTI program.

     

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