The Woodcock-Johnson IV (WJ-IV) is the only assessment that offers three co-normed batteries that can be administered individually or in combination to produce actionable insights for specific referral concerns. 
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WJ-IV

Richard W. Woodcock, EdD,Barbara Wendling,Kevin McGrew,Nancy Mather,Fredrick Schrank
The Woodcock-Johnson IV (WJ-IV) is the only assessment that offers three co-normed batteries that can be administered individually or in combination to produce actionable insights for specific referral concerns. 
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Age range:
2 - 90+
Publication date:
2014
Qualification level:
B
Completion time:
5 minutes per subtest 
Administration:
  • Test: Individual; paper and pencil 
  • Online scoring and reporting through Riverside Score® 
Scores/Interpretation:
Task-level Subtest scaled scores, percentile ranks  
Scoring options:
Digital scoring, the WJ-IV is administered using paper record forms and scoring and reporting is completed online using the Riverside Score platform. 
Report Options:
Score report or Comprehensive report 
Norms:
The WJ IV was normed on over 7,000 children 

The Woodcock-Johnson IV is the only assessment that offers three co-normed batteries that can be administered individually or in combination to produce actionable insights for specific referral concerns.

The Woodcock-Johnson IV has three batteries: 

  • Achievement 
  • Cognitive Abilities 
  • Oral Language
Benefits of WJ IV Achievement
  • Pinpoint all 8 areas of academic functioning related to specific learning disabilities 
  • Increase diagnostic capabilities by using alongside co-normed Cognitive Abilities and Oral Language batteries 
  • Compare skills, fluency, and application in reading, writing, math and specific combinations 
  • Select specific tests for your referral concern with a flexible administration design 
  • Use 3 parallel forms to enable reliable pre and post-testing 
Benefits of WJ IV Cognitive Abilities
  • Pinpoint cognitive correlates of learning challenges 
  • Increase diagnostic capabilities by using alongside co-normed Achievement and Oral Language batteries 
  • Select specific tests for your referral concern with a flexible administration design 
  • Generate an academically predictive Gf Gc composite 
  • Gather the most robust measure of broad and narrow CHC abilities with diagnostically useful tests and clusters 
Benefits of WJ IV Oral Language
  • Provides important information about phonological and rapid automatic naming skills 
  • Determines how academic achievement levels compare to oral language comprehension 
  • Generates a Comparative Language Index (CLI) to compare English to Spanish oral language ability 
  • Allows for a more complete evaluation of specific learning disabilities, including Dyslexia 
  • Yields a measure of Cognitive-Academic Language Proficiency (CALP) 
  • Evaluates the impact of oral language proficiency on cognitive and academic performance