Specific Learning Disabilities and Difficulties in Children and Adolescents Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Part I History and Tradition
- Part II Alternative Cognitive Approaches to Learning Disabilities Assessment and Remediation
- 3 Application of the Woodcock—Johnson Tests of Cognitive Ability—Revised to the diagnosis of learning disabilities
- 4 The Kaufman tests — K-ABC and KAIT
- 5 Using the Cognitive Assessment System (CAS) with learning-disabled children
- 6 Application of the Differential Ability Scales (DAS) and British Ability Scales, Second Edition (BAS II), for the assessment of learning disabilities
- 7 Is dynamic assessment compatible with the psychometric model?
- 8 Multi-perspective, clinical—educational assessments of language disorders
- Part III Neuropsychological Approaches to Learning Disabilities Assessment and Remediation
- Part IV Integration and Summation
- Index
6 - Application of the Differential Ability Scales (DAS) and British Ability Scales, Second Edition (BAS II), for the assessment of learning disabilities
from Part II - Alternative Cognitive Approaches to Learning Disabilities Assessment and Remediation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Part I History and Tradition
- Part II Alternative Cognitive Approaches to Learning Disabilities Assessment and Remediation
- 3 Application of the Woodcock—Johnson Tests of Cognitive Ability—Revised to the diagnosis of learning disabilities
- 4 The Kaufman tests — K-ABC and KAIT
- 5 Using the Cognitive Assessment System (CAS) with learning-disabled children
- 6 Application of the Differential Ability Scales (DAS) and British Ability Scales, Second Edition (BAS II), for the assessment of learning disabilities
- 7 Is dynamic assessment compatible with the psychometric model?
- 8 Multi-perspective, clinical—educational assessments of language disorders
- Part III Neuropsychological Approaches to Learning Disabilities Assessment and Remediation
- Part IV Integration and Summation
- Index
Summary
Introduction and overview
Two decades have passed since what was then a new test battery — the British Ability Scales (BAS; Elliott, Murray, & Pearson, 1979) — was introduced to the stable of tests for assessing cognitive abilities in children. The battery has since been further developed, resulting in the publication of the Differential Ability Scales (DAS; Elliott, 1990a) and the British Ability Scales, Second Edition (BAS II; Elliott, 1997a), which have achieved widespread acceptance and popularity in the USA and UK, respectively.
The BAS II and DAS represent an advance in cognitive assessment. In a review of the original BAS, Embretson (1985) stated: ‘The BAS is an individual intelligence test with greater scope and psychometric sophistication than the major American individual tests. The test development procedures and norms are laudatory’ (p. 232). In another review, Wright and Stone (1985) stated that the BAS ‘is a significant advance in mental measurement … Its form and function are a model for contemporary test builders and a preview of the future of test construction’ (p. 232). Kamphaus (1993), in reviewing the DAS, wrote: ‘There is every indication that the developers of the DAS erred in the direction of quality at every turn. The manual is extraordinarily thorough, the psychometric properties are strong, and the test materials are of high quality’ (pp. 320–1).
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- Specific Learning Disabilities and Difficulties in Children and AdolescentsPsychological Assessment and Evaluation, pp. 178 - 217Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001
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