About the Assessment
Norms, Goals
Reliability/Validity
Fairness
Usefulness
100
The area of learning that the Woodcock Reading Mastery Test--Revised assesses.
What is measure of several important aspects of reading ability?
100
The age range for the test
What is 5-75 years plus? (K-12)
100
The ability to retest
What are alternate forms G and H?
100
The General Population
Who are people the norm group seeks to cover.
100
appropriateness of the test
What is assessing reading comprehension?
200
The length of time it takes for an administration.
What is 40-45 minutes for the entire battery and 15 minutes for the short scale?
200
The Representativeness of the test
What is over 3000 examinees from 129 sites in 40 states?
200
Internal consistency
What are .80s and .90s (r11)
200
Age issues with the norm group
Who is no one older than 22 years of age?
200
Acuracy
What are many test items and scores?
300
The educational experience needed to be an examiner.
What is no formal training?
300
The normative sample
What is English speaking, gender, race, parental education, and geographic regions to reflect U.S. demographic distributions.
300
Concurrent Tests
What are the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-educational Battery-Revised, Woodcock Johnson Reading Tests, Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, Total Reading, Iowas Tests of Educational Development Total Reading, PIAT Reading, WJ Reading Achievement, WRAT Reading?
300
More problems with the norm group
What are limited inclusion of college students, individuals in major cities, and special education students.
300
Strength
What is the identification and assessment of several areas of reading difficulty.
400
The language that must be spoken to take the test.
What is English?
400
The date of development of norms
When was 1998. (1987) (1973)
400
Predictive and Construct Validity
What is "not available?"
400
A problem with the size of the norm group
What is smaller than the earlier norm study done in 1987.
400
Weakness
What is a lack of explanation to explain word selection?
500
Revised/Normative Update
What is not a complete rivision of the former edition?
500
Constructs
What are Visual-Auditory Learning, Letter Identification, Word Identification, Word Attack, Word Comprehension, and Passage Comprehension?
500
Issues with test questions
What are bias to some student, dealing with music knowledge or exposure to animals.
500
Practicality of use
What is using the test in conjunction with other assessments.