Overview
The AAB is a SASC-authorised complete achievement assessment, offering both a comprehensive battery as well as a screening version for use with individuals throughout the lifespan.
Suitable for
Suitable for ages 4 to 85 years.
Language Versions
English
Product Description
The AAB Comprehensive Form is a broad battery of tests that covers a wide range of achievement domains in children and adults ages 4 to 85 years. It assesses performance in the main areas of achievement defined by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA; 2004):
- Oral expression
- Listening comprehension
- Written expression
- Basic reading skill
- Reading fluency skills
- Reading comprehension
- Mathematics calculation
- Mathematics problem solving
Features and benefits
- Administration and scoring are straightforward and easy – and both comprehensive and screening versions have a Fast Guide to help you get started.
- Provides age- and grade-based (fall and spring) norms.
- Can be administered in about 90 minutes and scored in 15 minutes.
- The Academic Achievement Battery Composite, a total score, provides an overview of the individual’s overall performance on the various aspects of achievement measured by the AAB.
- A skills analysis enables you to investigate the individual’s strengths and weaknesses and offers a wealth of data with which to make interpretations and recommendations.
- Provides composite-to-composite and subtest-to-subtest discrepancy scores and reliable change scores.
Technical information
- AAB subtest and composite scores were found to be highly correlated with similar constructs on the WJ® III, KTEA-II, WRAT4, and WIAT® -III.
- The manual includes evidence supporting the ability of the AAB to differentiate performance in individuals with various learning disabilities, intellectual disorder, ADHD, and speech/language impairment.
- Includes reliable change scores and ability-achievement discrepencies with the RIAS-2.
Qualification level required:
Level 2. Please see our Test User Qualifications page for guidance
Reliability
Reliability coefficients for the subtests range from .77 to .97 and from .88 to .98 for the composite scores across the age- and grade-based normative samples.
Norms
Age-based sample formed on a US population of 1,274 individuals ages 4-83. Grade-based sample formed on a US population of 1,447 individuales ages 4-19 years.
Duration
Comprehensive Form: 90 minutes to administer; 15 minutes to score.
Release Note
2014
