Handbook of Nonverbal Assessment

by R. Steve McCallum (Editor)

Overview

US and British research psychologists describe current strategies and related best practices that various professionals can use to assess the abilities of children and adults from diverse cultures or who have difficulty using English. Among those professionals might be school psychologists, special educators, speech and hearing specialists, and rehabilitation counselors. The aspects explored include the psychological, sociological, and biological context; developing fair, or at least fairer, tests; the best and most commonly used individual and groups tests of cognition; and strategies for assessing achievement, personality, neuropsychological functioning, and related constructs. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461501534
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	06/29/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

R. Steve McCallum, Ph.D., is Professor of School Psychology in the Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling at the University of Tennessee. Before coming to the University, Dr. McCallum worked for 4 years as a practicing school psychologist. During his 28 years at the University, Dr. McCallum served both as Program Coordinator for the School Psychology Program (3 years) and Department Head (22 years). He contributes to the assessment field as an author or co-author of numerous scholarly works, including books, book chapters, journal articles, tests, and national and international conference presentations (e.g., Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test (UNIT), published by Riverside Publishing Company; a software interpretive program for the UNIT called UNIT Compuscore; Essentials of Nonverbal Assessment, published by John Wiley & Sons; the Handbook of Nonverbal Assessment, published by Kluwer Academic; Plenum Publishers; the Handbook of Reading Assessment, published by Allyn & Bacon/Pearson; the Universal Multidimensional Abilities Scales (UMAS), published by PRO ED). Finally, he is co-founder and contributing editor of the Journal of Psychoeducatonal Assessment. For his contributions to the profession, Dr. McCallum was elected a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 1992.

Table of Contents

Part I: Context.- Chapter 1. Context for Nonverbal Assessment of Intelligence and Related Abilities.- Chapter 2. Best Practices in Detecting Bias in Cognitive Tests.- Chapter 3. Best Practices in Multicultural Assessment of Cognition.- Chapter 4. Best Practices in Assessing those who are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing.- Chapter 5. Best Practices in Cross-Battery Assessment of Nonverbal Cognitive Ability.- Chapter 6. Psychological and Physiological Influences on Multicultural and Nonverbal Assessment.- Part II: Selected Nonverbal Cognitive Tests.- Chapter 7. The Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test: Second Edition.- Chapter 8. Leiter-3: Nonverbal Cognitive and Neuropsychological Assessment.- Chapter 9. Wechsler Nonverbal Scale of Ability.- Chapter 10. Comprehensive Test of Nonverbal Intelligence: Second Edition.- Chapter 11. Test of Nonverbal Intelligence: A Language-Free Measure of Cognitive Ability.- Chapter 12. General Ability Measure for Adults.- Chapter 13. Two Nonverbal Screeners: The Universal Multidimensional Abilities Scale (UMAS) and the Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test-Group Abilities Test (UNIT-GAT).- Part III: Nonverbal Assessment of Related Abilities.- Chapter 14. Nonverbal Assessment of Personality and Psychopathology.- Chapter 15. The Nonverbal Assessment of Academic Skills.- Chapter 16. Functional Behavioral Assessment of Nonverbal Behavior.- Chapter 17. Nonverbal Neuropsychological Assessment.​