IV ® Nancy Mather • Barbara J. Wendling J. Nancy Mather • Barbara Examiner’s ManualExaminer’s Batteries & Extended Standard Woodcock-Johnson of Achievement Tests Woodcock-Johnson® IV Tests of Achievement | Examiner’s Manual Mather • Wendling Woodcock-Johnson® IV Tests of Achievement Examiner’s Manual Nancy Mather ◆ Barbara J. Wendling Reference Citations ■■ To cite the entire WJ IV battery, use: Schrank, F. A., McGrew, K. S., & Mather, N. (2014). Woodcock-Johnson IV. Rolling Meadows, IL: Riverside Publishing. ■■ To cite the WJ IV Tests of Achievement, use: Schrank, F. A., Mather, N., & McGrew, K. S. (2014). Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Achievement. Rolling Meadows, IL: Riverside Publishing. ■■ To cite this manual, use: Mather, N., & Wendling, B. J. (2014). Examiner’s Manual. Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Achievement. Rolling Meadows, IL: Riverside Publishing. ■■ To cite the online scoring and reporting program, use: Schrank, F. A., & Dailey, D. (2014). 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WIIIP, WJ IV Interpretation and Instructional Interventions Program, Woodcock Interpretation and Instructional Interventions Program, and WJ IV are trademarks of Riverside Assessments, LLC. The MindHub is a registered trademark of the Institute for Applied Psychometrics (IAP) and Interactive Metronome. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. The WJ IV tests are not to be used in any program operating under statutes or regulations that require disclosure of specific item content and/or correct responses to the public, including subjects or their parents. Any unauthorized distribution of the specific item content and/or correct responses is prohibited by copyright law. For technical information, please visit www.riversideinsights.com or call Riverside Insights Customer Service at 800.323.9540. About the Authors of the WJ IV Fredrick A. Schrank Fredrick A. (Fred) Schrank guided the development of the Woodcock-Johnson® IV (WJ IV™) as the author team leader. He managed the test development company Measurement Learning Consultants (MLC) and provided stewardship to the Woodcock-Muñoz Foundation. Dr. Schrank is a licensed psychologist (Washington) and a board certified specialist in school psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). He worked in the Dodgeville, North Fond du Lac, and De Forest (Wisconsin) school districts before earning a PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Dr. Schrank then taught at Truman State University (Missouri) and the University of Puget Sound (Washington) prior to a 25-year career devoted almost exclusively to the development and publication of the Woodcock-Johnson family of tests. In service to professional psychology, he has been an oral examiner for the American Board of School Psychology (ABSP) and president of the American Academy of School Psychology (AASP). Fred was instrumental in the development of the organizational and interpretive plan for the WJ IV, including the Woodcock-Johnson online scoring and reporting program. Nancy Mather Nancy Mather is a Professor at the University of Arizona in the Department of Disability and Psychoeducational Studies. She holds an MA in Behavior Disorders and a PhD from the University of Arizona in Special Education and Learning Disabilities. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship under the mentorship of Dr. Samuel Kirk at the University of Arizona. Dr. Mather assisted Dr. Richard Woodcock with several aspects of test development for the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery–Revised (WJ-R®), including coauthoring the Examiner’s Manuals for the WJ-R Tests of Cognitive Ability and Achievement. She has been a coauthor of both the Woodcock-Johnson III (WJ III®) and the WJ IV and has coauthored two books on the interpretation and application of the WJ III—Essentials of WJ III Tests of Achievement Assessment and Woodcock-Johnson III: Reports, Recommendations, and Strategies. She has served as a learning disabilities teacher, a diagnostician, a university professor, and an educational consultant. Dr. Mather conducts research in the areas of reading and writing development. She has published numerous articles, conducts workshops on assessment and instruction both nationally and internationally, and has coauthored several books linking assessment and intervention, including Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviors: A Guide to Intervention and Classroom Management, Evidence-Based Interventions for Students iii with Learning and Behavioral Challenges, Essentials of Assessment Report Writing, Essentials of Evidence-Based Academic Interventions, Writing Assessment and Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities, and most recently, Essentials of Dyslexia: Assessment and Intervention. Kevin S. McGrew Kevin S. McGrew is Director of the Institute for Applied Psychometrics (IAP), LLC, a private research and consulting organization he established in 1998. He was an Associate Director of Measurement Learning Consultants and Research Director of the Woodcock-Muñoz Foundation. He also is a Visiting Lecturer in Educational Psychology (School Psychology Program) at the University of Minnesota and Director of Research for Interactive Metronome, a neurotechnology and rehabilitation company. He holds a PhD in Educational Psychology (Special Education) from the University of Minnesota and an MS in School Psychology and a BA in Psychology from Minnesota State University–Moorhead. Dr. McGrew was a practicing school psychologist for 12 years in Iowa and Minnesota. From 1989 to 2000, he was a Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota. He has served as a measurement consultant to a number of psychological test publishers, national research studies, and organizations. He has authored numerous publications and made state, national, and international presentations in his primary areas of research interest in human intelligence, intellectual assessment, human competence, applied psychometrics, and the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory of cognitive abilities. He is an active distributor of theoretical and research information via three professional blogs and The MindHub® web portal. Dr. McGrew was the primary measurement consultant for the WJ-R and served in the same capacity as coauthor of the Mini-Battery of Achievement (MBA), Sharpe-McNear-McGrew Braille Assessment Inventory (BAI), WJ III, Woodcock-Johnson Diagnostic Supplement to the Tests of Cognitive Abilities, Batería III Woodcock-Muñoz® (Batería III), Woodcock-Johnson III Normative Update, Woodcock-Johnson III–Australian Adaptation, and WJ IV. He was the psychometric and statistical consultant for the development of the Children’s Psychological Processes Scale. Contributing Author Barbara J. Wendling coauthored the WJ IV Examiner’s Manuals with Nancy Mather. Barbara is an educational consultant with expertise in assessment, test interpretation, and academic interventions. She holds an MA in Learning Disabilities, and she has over 17 years of experience as an educator and diagnostician in Illinois public schools and 11 years of experience in educational and assessment publishing. Currently she is the Education Director of the Woodcock-Muñoz Foundation. Barbara has coauthored several books on assessment and intervention, including Essentials of Evidence-Based Academic Interventions, Writing Assessment and Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities, and Essentials of Dyslexia: Assessment and Intervention. In addition, she has coauthored the following books on the use and interpretation of the Woodcock-Johnson: Essentials of the WJ III Tests of Achievement Assessment; Essentials of the WJ III Tests of Cognitive Abilities Assessment, Second Edition; and Essentials of the WJ IV Tests of Achievement Assessment. She is also coauthor of the WJ III and WJ IV versions of the Woodcock Interpretation and Instructional Interventions Program™, WJ IV Interpretation and Instructional Interventions Program™ (WIIIP™). iv Acknowledgments The Woodcock-Johnson IV was developed from the contributions of thousands of individuals, spanning time and distance, each motivated by a desire or a call to make a valuable contribution to the future of contemporary assessment practice. Although it is impossible to acknowledge everyone individually, a few key people have made such significant contributions that even special mention seems inadequate as an expression of their impact. When author team meetings were scheduled, Barbara Wendling was deemed to be so invaluable that she was always invited to participate. Her experience as an educator and diagnostician, her work in educational and test publishing, and the insights she has gleaned