Using empirical references as the basis of your review, research either a standardized personality, intelligence or educational test and complete a summary critique/report. The review should include: general information about the test including title, aut

Running Head : THE KAUFMAN ASSESSMENT FOR CHILDREN (K-ABC The Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC

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I . GENERAL INFORMATION

Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC , Original Edition

Kaufman , A .S Kaufman , N .L

American Guidance Service , 1983

II . TEST

Test Content

According to the authors of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (KABC : Kaufman Kaufman , 1989 ) the test measures intelligence defined as an individual 's style of solving problems and processing information (1985 ,

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Test Purpose

The original Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (KABC- Kaufman Kaufman , 1983 , is designed for use with children ages 2 to 12 and that it differed from other intelligence tests of the same era . Rather than emphasize the measure of g , interpretation of the K-ABC focused on two major subscales : Sequential Processing and Simultaneous Processing These scales are described as two kinds of mental functioning that were identified independently by several groups of researchers , including those who studied cerebral specialization (e .g , Bogen , Gazzaniga Kinsbourne , Sperry , the neuropsychologist A . R . Luria and his followers (e .g , Das , and cognitive psychologists (e .g , Neisser . According to Kaufman and Kaufman (1985 , sequential processing places a premium on the serial or temporal of stimuli when solving problems ' and simultaneous processing demands a gestalt-like , frequently spatial integration of stimuli to solve problems (p . 2 . These tests are intended to be used for psychological and clinical assessment psychoeducational evaluation of learning disabled and other exceptional children , educational...