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1 Technical ManualKevin S. McGrew Erica M. LaForte Fredrick A. SchrankWoodcock-Johnson IVTechnical ManualKevin S. McGrew Erica M. LaForte Fredrick A. SchrankReference Citations To cite the entire WJ IV battery, use:Schrank, F. A., McGrew, K. S., & Mather, N. (2014). Woodcock-Johnson IV. Rolling Meadows, IL: Riverside. To c ite t he WJ IV Tests of Achievement, use:Schrank, F. A., Mather, N., & McGrew, K. S. (2014). Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Achievement. Rolling Meadows, IL: Riverside. To c ite t he WJ IV Tests of Cognitive Abilities, use: Schrank, F. A., McGrew, K. S., & Mather, N. (2014). Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Cognitive Abilities.

2 Rolling Meadows, IL: Riverside. To c ite t he WJ IV Tests of Oral Language, use:Schrank, F. A., Mather, N., & McGrew, K. S. (2014). Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Oral Language. Rolling Meadows, IL: Riverside. To cite this manual, use:McGrew, K. S., LaForte, E. M., & Schrank, F. A. (2014). Technical Manual. Woodcock-Johnson IV. Rolling Meadows, IL: Riverside. To cite the online scoring and reporting program, use:Schrank, F. A., & Dailey, D. (2014). Woodcock-Johnson Online Scoring and Reporting [Online format]. Rolling Meadows, IL: 2014 by The Riverside Publishing Company. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of Riverside, unless such copying is expressly permitted by federal copyright law.

3 Address all inquiries to Permissions, Riverside, 3800 Golf Road, Suite 200, Rolling Meadows, Illinois a III Woodcock-Mu oz, WJ III, WJ-R, and Woodcock-Johnson are registered trademarks of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. WJ IV and the Woodcock-Johnson logo are trademarks of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing , Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals, DAS-II, Differential Ability Scales, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, WAIS, Wechsler Individual Achievement Test, WIAT, Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, and WISC are registered trademarks of Pearson Education, , KTEA, OWLS, PPVT, Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence, and WPPSI are trademarks of Pearson Education, is a registered trademark of Escalade MindHub is a registered trademark of the Institute for Applied Psychometrics (IAP)

4 And Interactive is a registered trademark of John Michael other trademarks are the property of their respective WJ IV tests are not to be used in any program operating under statutes or regulations that require disclosure of specific item content and/or correct responses to the public, including subjects or their parents. Any unauthorized distribution of the specific item content and/or correct responses is prohibited by copyright technical information, please visit or call Riverside Customer Service at 4iiiAbout the Authors ofthe WJ IVFredrick A. SchrankFredrick A. (Fred) Schrank guided the development of the Woodcock-Johnson IV (WJ IV ) as the author team leader.

5 He managed the test development company Measurement Learning Consultants (MLC) and provided stewardship to the Woodcock-Mu oz Schrank is a licensed psychologist (Washington) and a board certified specialist in school psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). He worked in the Dodgeville, North Fond du Lac, and De Forest (Wisconsin) school districts before earning a PhD from the University of Wisconsin Madison. Dr. Schrank then taught at Truman State University (Missouri) and the University of Puget Sound (Washington) prior to a 25-year career devoted almost exclusively to the development and publication of the Woodcock-Johnson family of tests.

6 In service to professional psychology, he has been an oral examiner for the American Board of School Psychology (ABSP) and president of the American Academy of School Psychology (AASP). Fred was instrumental in the development of the organizational and interpretive plan for the WJ IV, including the Woodcock-Johnson online scoring and reporting S. McGrewKevin S. McGrew is Director of the Institute for Applied Psychometrics (IAP), LLC, a private research and consulting organization he established in 1998. He was an Associate Director of Measurement Learning Consultants and Research Director of the Woodcock-Mu oz Foundation. He also is a Visiting Lecturer in Educational Psychology (School Psychology Program) at the University of Minnesota and Director of Research for Interactive Metronome, a neurotechnology and rehabilitation company.

7 He holds a PhD in Educational Psychology (Special Education) from the University of Minnesota and an MS in School Psychology and a BA in Psychology from Minnesota State University McGrew was a practicing school psychologist for 12 years in Iowa and Minnesota. From 1989 to 2000, he was a Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota. He has served as a measurement consultant to a number of psychological test publishers, national research studies, and has authored numerous publications and made state, national, and international presentations in his primary areas of research interest in human intelligence, intellectual assessment, human competence, applied psychometrics, and the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory of cognitive abilities.

8 He is an active distributor of theoretical and research information via three professional blogs and The MindHub web McGrew was the primary measurement consultant for the WJ-R and served in the same capacity as coauthor of the Mini-Battery of Achievement (MBA), Sharpe-McNear-McGrew Braille Assessment Inventory (BAI), WJ III, Woodcock-Johnson Diagnostic Supplement to the Tests of Cognitive Abilities, Bater a III Woodcock-Mu oz (Bater a III), Woodcock-Johnson III Normative Update (WJ III NU), Woodcock-Johnson III Australian Adaptation, and WJ IV. He was the psychometric and statistical consultant for the development of the Children s Psychological Processes MatherNancy Mather is a Professor at the University of Arizona in the Department of Disability and Psychoeducational Studies.

9 She holds an MA in Behavior Disorders and a PhD from the University of Arizona in Special Education and Learning Disabilities. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship under the mentorship of Dr. Samuel Kirk at the University of Mather assisted Dr. Richard Woodcock with several aspects of test development for the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery Revised (WJ-R ), including coauthoring the Examiner s Manuals for the WJ-R Tests of Cognitive Ability and Achievement. She has been a coauthor of both the Woodcock-Johnson III (WJ III ) and the WJ IV and has coauthored two books on the interpretation and application of the WJ III Essentials of WJ III Tests of Achievement Assessment and Woodcock-Johnson III: Reports, Recommendations, and has served as a learning disabilities teacher, a diagnostician, a university professor, and an educational consultant.

10 Dr. Mather conducts research in the areas of reading and writing development. She has published numerous articles, conducts workshops on assessment and instruction both nationally and internationally, and has coauthored several books linking assessment and intervention, including Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviors: A Guide to Intervention and Classroom Management, Evidence-Based Interventions for Students with Learning and Behavioral Challenges, Essentials of Assessment Report Writing, Essentials of Evidence-Based Academic Interventions, Writing Assessment and Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities, and most recently, Essentials of Dyslexia: Assessment and AuthorErica M.