Awareness Skills Assessment: The Raus And The Woodcock Johnson Tests

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Ability/ Intellectual In the, The RAIS and the Woodcock Johnson Tests, is used to measure a person’s basic intelligence. The test is shown that it only takes about thirty-five minutes based on who is administering the test and how the person receives the information. The test is split into four sections which consists of “Verbal intelligence index (VIX), a nonverbal intelligence index (NIX), a composite intelligence index (CIX), and the composite memory index (CMX)” (Sandhu, 2016). These all work together in the test to end with the final score or result. This will also demonstrate that of verbal intelligence. There are both nonverbal and verbal section within the test and the test can’t be done using the pencil and paper but has to involve the people giving it to the individual (Sandhu, 2016). I find this particular assessment/test to be useful as well in the classroom to help in aiding both the student and the teacher on skills both nonverbal and verbal based upon the student’s intelligence. In the, Wechsler Adult …show more content…

This is assessment is supposed to be given verbally by hearing what is being asked by the assessor. In and through this test, the students are not expected to be literate and know how to write or read exactly. In this assessment, they have provided up to four different tests to help in assessing the student 's progress for the end of each term to help see where the students are academically. Now, when giving this test, as the assessor we will ask the students to respond to certain sounds that letters make. It works on the sounds of the letters and not the letter itself. The assessment can take however long the student needs (PASA:Kindergarten, 2014, pp. 1-16). I find that these four different assessments would be very helpful to find out what the student is grasping when at school and how they are

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