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Identifying Children with Learning Disabilities: When Is a Discrepancy Severe?
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Algozzine, Bob; And Others – Journal of School Psychology, 1982
A school district made identification decisions for 51 students referred because of academic difficulties; 24 students were learning disabled. The school identification decisions, based on application of a severe discrepancy on the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery, did not correlate with decisions based on the federal definition of…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Performance of Learning Disabled University Students on the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery, Part II: Tests of Achievement.
Gajar, Anna Helen – Diagnostique, 1987
The adequacy of the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery, Part II: Tests of Achievement, for identifying and diagnosing learning disabled college students was examined using 68 subjects. Results indicated that ceiling effects were less pervasive than with regular college students. Cluster and subtest reliabilities proved adequate for use in…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Students, Educational Diagnosis, Handicap Identification
Use of the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery, Part II: Tests of Achievement with a College Population.
Salvia, John; Salvia, Shawn Amig – Diagnostique, 1985
Performance of 100 college freshmen on the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery, Part II, Tests of Achievement, were analyzed by subtests and cluster scores to determine appropriateness for assessing achievement of handicapped students. Minor inversions in item order and pronounced ceiling effects on all subtests yielded lowered subtest and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cluster Analysis, College Freshmen, Disability Identification