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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. 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.

2 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. 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)

3 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. 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).

4 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. 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.

5 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. 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.

6 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. She holds an MA in Behavior Disorders and a PhD from the University of Arizona in Special Education and Learning Disabilities.

7 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. 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.

8 LaForte coauthored the WJ IV Technical Manual with Kevin McGrew and Fredrick Schrank. She is an educational measurement professional with over 15 years of experience in clinical, educational, licensure, and certification test development and publishing. She holds an MA in Research Methodology from Loyola University Chicago and a PhD in Educational Psychology (with a focus in Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment) from the University of Illinois at Chicago. During the development of the WJ IV, Erica provided the primary leadership in psychometric item analysis, scaling, test equating, and reliability analysis of the tests and clusters. She also assisted the author team in the analysis of the concurrent validity and clinical studies. Prior to her work on the WJ IV, Erica was employed for over 13 years at Riverside, where she held various positions in test development and woodcock - johnson IV was developed from the contributions of thousands of individuals, spanning time and distance, each motivated by a desire or a call to make a valuable contribution to the future of contemporary assessment practice.

9 Although it is impossible to acknowledge everyone individually, a few key people have made such significant contributions that even special mention seems inadequate as an expression of their author team meetings were scheduled, Barbara Wendling was deemed to be so invaluable that she was always invited to participate. Her experience as an educator and diagnostician, her work in educational and test publishing, and the insights she has gleaned from developing and delivering trainings on learning disabilities and assessment over many years are reflected in the examiner s manuals and all of the WJ IV the Measurement Learning Consultants project center offices on the beautiful Oregon coast, Mary Ruef fostered and supervised a staff of highly qualified employees who prepared standardization materials and scored the test results from the standardization and validity studies. In addition, she helped prepare the final data for analysis, including the preparation of preliminary data reports from which publication items were expertise in test publishing dedicated to the woodcock - johnson family of tests made Melanie Bartels Graw an indispensable asset to the quality of the published materials.

10 Her painstaking attention to detail is evidenced throughout the battery, from the item keys to the user-friendliness of the examiner instructions. She single-handedly managed the monumental coordination effort of submitting and reviewing multiple iterations of all of the tests, test records, response booklets, and manuals to critical task of converting standardization data to norms was accomplished through the superior craftsmanship of David Dailey, who not only trained and managed a staff of norms construction technicians, but also was instrumental in managing all of the nuances of the WJ IV blueprint so that each successive iteration of the battery plan could be reviewed and improved by the authors. A professional statistician, he played a key consulting role for a variety of statistical analyses reported in the woodcock - johnson IV Technical on his years of experience creating the software programs for the woodcock - johnson family of tests, both in the United States and internationally, Todd Simmons expertly programmed the woodcock - johnson online scoring and reporting program, offering the perspective of ease-of-use in software design.