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Wiig
Assessment of
Basic Concepts®
by
Elisabeth Wiig, Ph.D., CCC-SLP |
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- Ages:
2.6 to 7.11
- Testing
Time: 10 - 15 minutes
- Norm-referenced
WABC® provides standard scores, percentile ranks,
and age equivalents.
The
Wiig Assessment of Basic Concepts® (WABC®)
is a unique norm-referenced assessment that evaluates a child's
understanding and use of basic concepts. |
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Create
focused IEPs and intervention plans. |
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Thoroughly
assess basic concepts. |
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Identify
children in preschool and kindergarten who need “extra
help” with basic concepts. |
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Distinguish
deficits in using basic concepts from deficits in understanding
them. |
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Further
distinguish an inability to understand basic concept terms from
deficits in auditory processing (following directions). |
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What Makes the WABC® Different? |
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There
is no easel. Instead, the test is presented in an interactive
storybook format. This gives you the opportunity to test the child
in a setting that is quite natural to most children (looking at/reading
a book). Click here for a sample page.
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The
WABC® embeds concept pairs or related words in colorfully illustrated
scenes. Instead of presenting each concept as an unrelated
single word, the WABC® assesses
one of the concepts in a pair receptively (Which
bear is big? Child points to big bear) and
the other expressively (You showed me big. This bear
is ... Child says, "little.")
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The
WABC® contains two age-level tests. Level 1 - A
Day at the Zoo is for preschool children age 2.6 to 5.11 years
and Level 2 - A Day at the Park is for children in kindergarten
and early elementary grades ages 5.0 to 7.11 years. For a more complete
picture of strengths and weaknesses, you may administer BOTH levels
to children between 5.0 - 5.11 years.
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Receptive & Expressive Testing
The WABC®
groups 113 basic concepts in two sets:
Level 1 and Level 2 (click here
for a list of concepts). Each Level assesses concept knowledge
(receptive) AND use (expressive) across seven (7) categories:
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Color
or Shape (Ex., red, square) |
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Size,
Weight or Volume (Ex., short/tall, big/little) |
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Distance,
Time or Speed (Ex., far/near, slow/fast) |
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Quantity
or Completeness (Ex., none/all, less/more) |
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Location
or Direction (Ex., behind/in front) |
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Condition
or Quality (Ex., hot/cold, wet/dry) |
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Sensation,
Emotion, or Evaluation (Ex., bad/good) |
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| Who
May Administer the WABC®? |
Childhood
teachers, special educators, and speech-language pathologists
may administer the WABC®. We
recommend, however, that only
educators and professionals skilled in testing administration
and scoring, interpret the results and create intervention
plans for their students. |
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| Valid
and Reliable
The
WABC® is a valid and reliable assessment
instrument. For the standardization, the population
sample included 1200 children from the United States
and closely resembles 2000 US Census data. Test-Retest
correlations were very good with r = .93 for Level
1 Total Score and r = .92 for Level 2 Total
Score. Inter-rater reliability was also high with
an Alpha of .99. In comparing the WABC®
to the Boehm-3 Preschool and the Boehm-3,
we found that both tests examine similar skills (Level
1 Total Raw Scores, Pearson's r = .69 and Level
2 Total Raw Scores, Pearson's r = .74). |
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Your WABC® Kit Includes:
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Level
1 and Level 2 Storybooks! |
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50
Level 1 and 50 Level 2 record forms! |
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Examiner's Manual |
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Clipboard
with calculator! |
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Puppy
Bank reinforcer with 30 Doggy Dog tokens! |
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75
WABC® Stickers |
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Awesome
WABC® Tote Bag |
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