Can anyone tell me if the new Woodcock reading, math and written expression versions are testing with higher or lower SS compared to the WJ-R.
Meme
Re: New Woodcock
Ditto, I take measures of standard scores each year on all my students to track growth (one measure of growth, that is) and I am finding things to be pretty consistent: students are testing out where I would expect them to, showing steady growth (in most cases). I just love all the new subtests to give me more standardized information.
I am finding as I use it that they are about the same. The reading, math and written language tests are not substantially different from the WJR- it is the new tests that are interesting. They have added measures of reading and math fluency as well as making the written language tests (mechanical skills) a bit more precise- though they still don’t address connected writing like the TOWL. There is also the whole section on phonological awareness which is pretty good. The only thing I would like to see them do at this point is to somehow separate out number patterns and vocabulary knowledge on Quantitative Concepts- so that you could have asense of what was appropriate for a given age. The Knowledge section is also changed- but the scores seem to be comparable across most of the students I have worked with. Just a note-The Broad Cluster scores are still derived with the same combinations of tests- Broad Reading is Letter Word and Passage Comprehension, Broad Math is Calculation and Applied Problems, and Broad Written Language is essentially the same.
Robin