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Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition (SB5), by Gale H. Roid
Type: Cognitive ability assessment
Purpose: Individually administered assessment of intelligence and cognitive abilities
Measures: Fluid Reasoning, Knowledge, Quantitative Reasoning, Visual-Spatial Processing, Working Memory
Ages: 2 to 85+ years
Times: Approximately 5 minutes per subtest
Scoring: By hand or SB5 ScoringPro Softward
Features and Benefits
- Enhanced nonverbal/low-verbal content that requires no (or minimal) verbal responses from the examinee
- Useful in assessing for LEP/ELL, deaf and hard of hearing, and autistic populations
- Extensive high-end items to ensure measurement of the highest levels of gifted performance
- Improved low-end items for better measurement of low functioning children and adults
- Valid measurement of abilities into the elderly years with enhanced assessment of working memory
- Modernized artwork and item content
- Child-friendly manipulatives
The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition(SB5)is a contemporary assessment that has become widely known and is acknowledged as the standard for intelligence measurement. As a battery of cognitive tests, the SB5 advances the assessment of strengths and weaknesses in the cognitive processes of students who may be evaluated for learning disabilities. The SB5 supports early prediction of emerging learning disabilities in children as young as four years old. As a battery of cognitive tests, the SB5 advances the assessment of strengths and weaknesses in the cognitive processes of students who may be evaluated for learning disabilities. The SB5 supports early prediction of emerging learning disabilities in children as young as four years old.
The SB5 provides comprehensive coverage of five factors of cognitive ability:
- Fluid Reasoning
- Knowledge
- Quantitative Reasoning
- Visual-Spatial Processing
- Working Memory
Uses
The SB5 helps to diagnose a wide variety of developmental disabilities and exceptionalities and may also be useful in:
- Clinical and neuropsychological assessment
- Early childhood assessment
- Psycho-educational evaluations for special education placements
- Adult social security and workers’ compensation evaluations
- Providing information for interventions such as IFSPs, IEPs, career assessment, industrial selection, and adult neuropsychological treatment
- Forensic contexts
- Research on abilities and aptitudes.
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