Essentials of WJ III Cognitive Abilities Assessment

FREDRICK A. SCHRANK, PhD, ABPP, is Director of Measurement Learning Consultants, Executive Director of the Woodcock-Munoz Foundation, and a past president of the American Academy of School Psychology. DANIEL C. MILLER, PhD, ABPP, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology and Philosophy at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas, and a past president of the National Association of School Psychologists. BARBARA J. WENDLING, MA, is Education Director of the Woodcock-Munoz Foundation and a nationally recognized expert on use and interpretation of the WJ IIITM. RICHARD W. WOODCOCK, EdD, ABPP, is the senior author of the Woodcock-Johnson family of assessment instruments. He is currently affiliated with the University of Southern California as a Clinical Professor of Psychology.

Series Preface xiii Acknowledgments xv One Overview of the WJ III COG and DS 1 Two How to Administer the WJ III COG and DS 24 Three How to Score the WJ III COG and DS 77 Four Interpretation of the WJ III COG and DS 124 Five Strengths and Weaknesses of the WJ III COG and DS 179 Six Clinical Group Comparisons on the WJ III COG, DS, and ACH 197 Seven Selected Case Studies 251 References 301 Annotated Bibliography 315 Index 317 About the Authors 329