Wechsler Individual Achievement Test | Third Edition
WIAT-III
Wechsler Individual Achievement Test® | Third Edition (WIAT®-III) is an individually administered achievement test for use in a variety of clinical, educational, and research settings. WIAT-4 is available for purchase!- Age range:
- Individuals 4:0-50:11
- Publication date:
- 2009
- Qualification level:
- B
- Completion time:
- Varies by grade level and number of subtests administered
- Administration:
- Paper-and-pencil or online administration
- Scores/Interpretation:
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Fall, Winter, and Spring grade-based standard scores, age-based standard scores, percentile ranks, stanines, NCEs, age and grade equivalents.
- Scoring options:
- Q-interactive administration and Q-global® web-based scoring
- Telepractice:
- Guidance on using this test in your telepractice
"This report didn’t just explain my child, it explained our whole life.’ That’s the power of assessment."
Renee Testa, Psychologist
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The WIAT-III is an achievement test for use in a variety of clinical, educational and research settings, including schools, clinics, private practices and residential treatment facilities.
Benefits
- Screen for dyslexia with stimulus materials you may already own with new Dyslexia Index Scores
- Identify student academic abilities, make educational placement decisions, diagnose specific learning disability, design instructional objectives, and plan interventions.
- Measure all eight areas of achievement specified by IDEA legislation.
- Focus on reading goals and objectives with the Early Reading Skills subtests.
- Evaluate patterns of strengths and weaknesses to identify learning disabilities.
Features
- Subtests include: Enhanced Listening Comprehension, Oral Expression, Written Expression subtests, Enhanced Reading Comprehension, Oral Reading (new), Math Fluency (new), and Early Reading Skills (new).
- Dyslexia Index Scores can be used for screening, inclusion in a comprehensive assessment battery, and as a tool for research.
- Improved scoring rules in response to scoring studies, theoretical reviews by expert researchers, and usability reviews by teachers and clinicians.
- Enhanced scoring software and interactive scoring guide in every kit.
- Updated norms for PreK through grade 12, and for ages 4:0–50:11; nationally standardized on 3,000 students and adults and features comprehensive normative information.
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Sample Reports
Combination reports allow you to upgrade your WPPSI-IV or WIAT-III score report to include a pattern of strengths and weaknesses analysis, and an ability achievement discrepancy analysis of the combined results.
The following resources are available for WIAT-III.
- Pearson Clinical Assessment Solutions: A Dyslexia Toolkit
- Dyslexia Index Scores Flyer
- Assessing Writing Skills Using Correct-Incorrect Word Sequences
- Intervention Guide for LD Subtypes
- Quick Score Guide for WIAT-III Essay Composition
- Patterns of Strengths & Weaknesses Models for Identifying SLD (NASP 2010)
- WIAT-III Enhanced Content Modifications
Sample Reports
Combination reports allow you to upgrade your WPPSI-IV or WIAT-III score report to include a pattern of strengths and weaknesses analysis, and an ability–achievement discrepancy analysis of the combined results.
Technical Reports
Tests in the WIAT-III harness the processing capacities of Q-interactive to provide new, more dynamic, cognitively demanding tasks that are unable to be delivered and scored with fidelity in a traditional paper format.
Test Components
Required items for administering WIAT-III on Q-interactive:
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Existing Users
If you have an active Q-interactive license, WIAT-III will be automatically added to your account.
Frequently asked questions follow. Click on a question to see the response.
Q & A from the KTEA-3 and WIAT-III Dyslexia Index scores webinars
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In print, in Q-global, and soon-to-be in Q-interactive!
- KTEA-3 Dyslexia Index Scores Manual (Manual Scoring) 015801524X
- KTEA-3 Dyslexia Index Scores Manual on Q-global 0150023189
- WIAT-III Dyslexia Index Scores Manual (Manual Scoring) 0158015258
- WIAT-III Dyslexia Index Scores Manual on Q-global 0150023197
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The original tables were first published in the Wiley Essentials of KTEA-3 and WIAT-III Assessment book, yes. However, these new manuals are expanded in content (with a wider age range in the case of WIAT-III), have the necessary forms, directly include scoring and significant interpretive information related to risk and recommendation language.
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The score form is included in the new manuals - you may reproduce!
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If you have the current KTEA-3 or WIAT-III complete kits, you have everything you need except the new Dyslexia Index score manual--choose print or Q-global version.
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Yes, you can use an existing KTEA-3 or WIAT-III administration with the new Dyslexia Index score manual.
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We are working on approvals for integrating the Dyslexia Index scores into the Q-global scoring and reporting, but that functionality is not available at this time.
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It's included in the new manual.
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Yes. It will provide a new score and that was not available before in the WIAT-III test. This score can be used on its own as a screener, or it can be used as part of the comprehensive evaluation with a full administration of KTEA-3 or WIAT-III.
