Overview
The CTOPP-2 helps evaluate phonological processing abilities as a prerequisite to reading fluency.
Suitable for
Suitable for use with ages 4 to 24 years.
Language Versions
English
Product Description
The CTOPP-2 allows users to:
- Identify individuals whose phonological abilities are significantly below their peers.
- Determine strengths and weaknesses in phonological processing skills.
- Document progress in phonological processing following intervention.
- Collect data for phonological processing research.
Features and benefits of the CTOPP-2
- The age range has been lowered in this edition to include 4-year-olds.
- Floor effects were eliminated by the addition of easier items; ceilings were extended by the addition of more difficult items.
- A new phonological awareness subtest (Phoneme Isolation) and rapid naming tasks for the youngest examinees were added.
Test structure
Subtests include: Elision, Blending Words, Sound Matching, Phoneme Isolation, Blending Nonwords, Segmenting Nonwords, Memory for Digits, Nonword Repetition, Rapid Digit Naming, Rapid Letter Naming, Rapid Color Naming, and Rapid Object Naming.
Five composite scores are available:
- The Phonological Awareness Composite Score represents the examinee's awareness of and access to the phonological structure of oral language.
- The Phonological Memory Composite Score represents the examinee's ability to code information phonologically for temporary storage in working or short-term memory.
- The Rapid Symbolic Naming Composite Score measures the examinee's ability to include efficient retrieval of phonological information from long-term or permanent memory and execute a sequence of operations quickly and repeatedly.
- The Rapid Non-Symbolic Naming Composite Score measures the examinee's ability to include efficient retrieval of phonological information from long-term or permanent memory and execute a sequence of operations quickly and repeatedly using objects and colours.
- The Alternate Phonological Awareness Composite Score, for examinees ages 7-24 years, measures the examinee's phonological awareness exclusively with nonwords.
Normative scores
The CTOPP-2 yields six types of normative scores; a new Rasch-based developmental score is now available for the non-speeded subtests.
Please note
The Core Subtest CD ROM and the Supplemental Subtest CD ROM are no longer available. Please contact orders@hogrefe.co.uk to request alternative means of accessing this material.
Qualification level required:
Level 2. Please see our Test User Qualifications page for guidance
Norms
All new normative data (N = 1,900), collected in 2008 and 2009, has demographic characteristics that are representative of the U.S. population.
Duration
40 minutes.
Release Note
2013
