- Testing Time: 30–60 minutes
- Norm-referenced; standard scores, percentiles, age equivalents
- Compete TOLD-I:3 kit includes: Examiner's Manual, Picture book, 25 profile/examiner record forms, Sturdy storage box. (1997)
The Test of Language Development-Intermediate, Third Edition (TOLD-I:3) has six subtests that measure different components of spoken language. Generals, Malapropisms, and Picture Vocabulary assess the understanding and meaningful use of spoken words. Sentence Combining, Word Ordering, and Grammatic Comprehension assess differing aspects of grammar. Description The TOLD-I:3 was standardized on more than 700 children from 19 states. Characteristics of the sample approximate the national population in 1990. Test reliability, which was investigated by the coefficient alpha and test-retest methods, is sufficiently high to warrant the use of the test with individual children. Evidence is provided in the manual to support the content, concurrent, and construct validity of the TOLD-I:3 test scores. About this Test - Designed for children ages 8;0–12;11
- Constructed in accordance with criteria recommended by the American Psychological Association
- Has the strongest research base of any currently available language test battery
- Is administered in approximately 40 minutes
- Reflects current theories pertaining to semantics, syntax, and phonology
- One of the most popular tests of spoken language used today
- Profiles individual strengths and deficiencies in basic language abilities
- Reports results as standard scores, percentiles, and age equivalents
Features of the TOLD-I:3 - All new norms were collected in 1996, keyed to the current census data.
- Norms are now completely representative of the U.S. population and stratified
by age. - The test is proven to be unbiased relative to gender and race.
- Reliability and validity studies were computed separately for minority and disability groups, as well as for the general population.
- A new subtest, Picture Vocabulary, replaces Vocabulary as a measure of the linguistic construct receptive (i.e., listening) semantics.
- Test rationale has been updated to reflect the thinking of today’s theorists regarding oral communication.
- Children’s names used in the items have been revised to reflect the demographic makeup of today’s students.
- Every item on the test was reevaluated using classical item analyses to choose “good” statistical items and the new differential item functioning analyses to find and eliminate biased items.
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