Series Editors, Alan S. Kaufman and Nadeen L. Kaufman
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Essentials of ADHD Assessment for Children and Adolescents by Elizabeth P. Sparrow and Drew Erhardt
Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties by David A. Kilpatrick
Essentials of Assessment Report Writing by Elizabeth O. Lichtenberger, Nancy Mather, Nadeen L. Kaufman, and Alan S. Kaufman
Essentials of Assessment with Brief Intelligence Tests by Susan R. Homack and Cecil R. Reynolds
Essentials of Autism Spectrum Disorders Evaluation and Assessment by Celine A. Saulnier and Pamela E. Ventola
Essentials of Bayley Scales of Infant Development‐II Assessment by Maureen M. Black and Kathleen Matula
Essentials of Behavioral Assessment by Michael C. Ramsay, Cecil R. Reynolds, and R. W. Kamphaus
Essentials of Career Interest Assessment by Jeffrey P. Prince and Lisa J. Heiser
Essentials of CAS Assessment by Jack A. Naglieri
Essentials of CAS2 Assessment by Jack A. Naglieri and Tulio M. Otero
Essentials of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, Second Edition by Linda Wilmshurst
Essentials of Cognitive Assessment with KAIT and Other Kaufman Measures by Elizabeth O. Lichtenberger, Debra Y. Broadbooks, and Alan S. Kaufman
Essentials of Conners Behavior Assessments™ by Elizabeth P. Sparrow
Essentials of Creativity Assessment by James C. Kaufman, Jonathan A. Plucker, and John Baer
Essentials of Cross‐Battery Assessment, Third Edition by Dawn P. Flanagan, Samuel O. Ortiz, and Vincent C. Alfonso
Essentials of DAS‐II® Assessment by Ron Dumont, John O. Willis, and Colin D. Elliott
Essentials of Dyslexia Assessment and Intervention by Nancy Mather and Barbara J. Wendling
Essentials of Evidence‐Based Academic Interventions by Barbara J. Wendling and Nancy Mather
Essentials of Executive Functions Assessment by George McCloskey and Lisa A. Perkins
Essentials of Forensic Psychological Assessment, Second Edition by Marc J. Ackerman
Essentials of Gifted Assessment by Steven I. Pfeiffer
Essentials of IDEA for Assessment Professionals by Guy McBride, Ron Dumont, and John O. Willis
Essentials of Individual Achievement Assessment by Douglas K. Smith
Essentials of Intellectual Disability Assessment and Identification Alan W. Brue and Linda Wilmshurst
Essentials of KABC‐II Assessment by Alan S. Kaufman, Elizabeth O. Lichtenberger, Elaine Fletcher‐Janzen, and Nadeen L. Kaufman
Essentials of KTEA™‐3 and WIAT®‐III Assessment by Kristina C. Breaux and Elizabeth O. Lichtenberger
Essentials of MCMI®‐IV Assessment by Seth D. Grossman and Blaise Amendolace
Essentials of Millon™ Inventories Assessment, Third Edition by Stephen Strack
Essentials of MMPI‐A™ Assessment by Robert P. Archer and Radhika Krishnamurthy
Essentials of MMPI‐2® Assessment, Second Edition by David S. Nichols
Essentials of Myers‐Briggs Type Indicator® Assessment, Second Edition by Naomi L. Quenk
Essentials of NEPSY®‐II Assessment by Sally L. Kemp and Marit Korkman
Essentials of Neuropsychological Assessment, Second Edition by Nancy Hebben and William Milberg
Essentials of Nonverbal Assessment by Steve McCallum, Bruce Bracken, and John Wasserman
Essentials of PAI® Assessment by Leslie C. Morey
Essentials of Planning, Selecting, and Tailoring Interventions for Unique Learners by Jennifer T. Mascolo, Vincent C. Alfonso, and Dawn P. Flanagan
Essentials of Processing Assessment, Second Edition by Milton J. Dehn
Essentials of Psychological Testing, Second Edition by Susana Urbina
Essentials of Response to Intervention by Amanda M. VanDerHeyden and Matthew K. Burns
Essentials of Rorschach® Assessment by Tara Rose, Michael P. Maloney, and Nancy Kaser‐Boyd
Essentials of Rorschach Assessment: Comprehensive System and R‐PAS by Jessica R. Gurley
Essentials of School Neuropsychological Assessment, Second Edition by Daniel C. Miller
Essentials of Specific Learning Disability Identification by Dawn P. Flanagan and Vincent C. Alfonso
Essentials of Stanford‐Binet Intelligence Scales (SB5) Assessment by Gale H. Roid and R. Andrew Barram
Essentials of TAT and Other Storytelling Assessments, Second Edition by Hedwig Teglasi
Essentials of Temperament Assessment by Diana Joyce
Essentials of WAIS®‐IV Assessment, Second Edition by Elizabeth O. Lichtenberger and Alan S. Kaufman
Essentials of WISC®‐IV Assessment, Second Edition by Dawn P. Flanagan and Alan S. Kaufman
Essentials of WISC‐V® Assessment by Dawn P. Flanagan and Vincent C. Alfonso
Essentials of WJ IV® Cognitive Abilities Assessment by Fredrick A. Schrank, Scott L. Decker, and John M. Garruto
Essentials of WJ IV® Tests of Achievement by Nancy Mather and Barbara J. Wendling
Essentials of WMS®‐IV Assessment by Lisa Whipple Drozdick, James A. Holdnack, and Robin C. Hilsabeck
Essentials of WNV™ Assessment by Kimberly A. Brunnert, Jack A. Naglieri, and Steven T. Hardy‐Braz
Essentials of Working Memory Assessment and Intervention by Milton J. Dehn
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Essentials of WRAML2 and TOMAL‐2 Assessment by Wayne Adams and Cecil R. Reynolds
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Names: Raiford, Susan Engi, author.
Title: Essentials of WISC-V integrated assessment / Susan Engi Raiford.
Description: Hoboken : Wiley, 2017. | Series: Essentials of psychological assessment; 6220 | Includes index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2017015343 (print) | LCCN 2017037654 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119370437 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119370444 (epub) | ISBN 9781119370420 (paperback)
Subjects: LCSH: Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence. | Children–Intelligence testing. | Child development–Testing. | BISAC: PSYCHOLOGY / Assessment, Testing & Measurement.
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To the memory of Dr. David Wechsler, without whom there would be no WISC. I will always hope that you would be proud.
To Dr. Alan S. Kaufman, with deep love and admiration, who has set a high bar in so many ways. Attempting to reach it will be a challenge my entire career, but I promise you it will ensure the Wechsler scales (and the children) will always get the very best I can possibly offer.
To my loving family: my husband, Robert James Raiford, and my son, George Dennis Raiford. Thank you for your understanding and patience while Mommy was working. Valentine’s Day is tomorrow, and I am yours once again.
I am indebted to a number of individuals on completion of this book. I wish to acknowledge those who provided book content first and foremost. Drs. Ron Dumont and John O. Willis authored Chapter 5, which reviews the pros and cons of the WISC‐V Integrated. I appreciate their objective appraisal, which will be helpful to readers in evaluation of the test. I thank Kathleen Rollins for leading up the administration and scoring chapters. I am thankful for Dr. Troy Courville, who provided technical guidance as I developed the norms for the additional composite scores that appear in the WISC‐V Integrated Interpretive Assistant 1.0 and who encouraged me along the way. I am grateful to Dr. JJ Zhu, who trained me in the Pearson norm development method. I am grateful to Dr. Larry Weiss for his support and encouragement of me in this endeavor. I wish to acknowledge William Schryver, senior licensing specialist at Pearson, for his speedy, expert handling of the numerous permissions requests we submitted.
I also am grateful to the outstanding professionals at Wiley who were instrumental in this book’s completion. I appreciate Tisha Rossi for her review of the initial proposal and support of it to the board at Wiley and support of me as I strove to complete the manuscript. I am grateful to our editorial and production team, Shandhya Rajan, Susan Geraghty, Purvi Patel, and Monica Rogers, who deserve recognition for their expertise and guidance in manuscript preparation and book production.
On a personal note, I am deeply grateful to my loving husband, Robert Raiford, for carrying the responsibilities of family and home for the past few months so that I could be free to write, especially during the many evenings and weekends he cared for our son, George. I also thank my son, George Raiford, for being patient when it was very difficult. Most important, I am indebted to Drs. Alan and Nadeen Kaufman for agreeing to give me an opportunity to write this book about the WISC‐V Integrated and for providing guidance, review, and encouragement throughout the process. I appreciate them for creating the Essentials series, conducting their groundbreaking work on the Wechsler intelligence scale textbooks, and their timely reviews of my chapters during the final crunch. Finally, I wish to thank Dr. David Wechsler and Dr. Edith Kaplan. I hope that they would be proud of the WISC‐V Integrated and of this book.
In the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, we have attempted to provide the reader with books that will deliver key practical information in the most efficient and accessible style. The series features instruments in a variety of domains, such as cognition, personality, education, and neuropsychology. For the experienced clinician, books in the series offer a concise yet thorough way to master use of the continuously evolving supply of new and revised instruments as well as a convenient method for keeping up‐to‐date on the tried‐and‐true measures. The novice will find here a prioritized assembly of all the information and techniques that must be at one’s fingertips to begin the complicated process of individual psychological diagnosis.
Whenever feasible, visual shortcuts to highlight key points are used alongside systematic, step‐by‐step guidelines. Chapters are focused and succinct. Topics are targeted for an easy understanding of the essentials of administration, scoring, interpretation, and clinical application. Theory and research are continually woven into the fabric of each book, always to enhance clinical inference, never to sidetrack or overwhelm. We have long been advocates of “intelligent” testing—the notion that a profile of test scores is meaningless unless it is brought to life by the clinical observations and astute detective work of knowledgeable examiners. Test profiles must be used to make a difference in the child’s or adult’s life, or why bother to test? We want this series to help our readers become the best intelligent testers they can be.
In Essentials of WISC‐V Integrated Assessment, Susie Engi Raiford—who was instrumental in developing the WISC‐V and WISC‐V Integrated in her role as lead research director—offers an insider’s perspective on the scale’s conceptualization, development, administration, and scoring. As the research director, she was responsible for conceptualizing, designing, and implementing the research, developing and revising the items and subtests, and writing the published manuals. She uses Behind the Scenes boxes to provide unparalleled insight into the new subtests and the test development process.
Arguably the world’s expert on the WISC‐V Integrated, Dr. Raiford has capitalized on the additional content in the WISC‐V Integrated in order to offer norms, reliability, and validity evidence for a number of new composite scores in this book (not available elsewhere) that substantially improve WISC‐V and WISC‐V Integrated suitability, accessibility, and fairness for children with expressive and motor production problems. She has provided additional expanded index scores (drawn from the WISC‐V and WISC‐V Integrated subtests) that are more comprehensive and varied measures of visual spatial ability, working memory, and processing speed relative to those available in the published instruments. She walks the reader through the process approach, as used within her interpretive system, to deepen and clarify WISC‐V insights and to simplify the interpretation process. She programmed automated software that greatly simplifies WISC‐V and WISC‐V Integrated interpretation by calculating the new composite scores and various comparisons of interest. This Essentials book is a must for anyone who uses the WISC‐V or the WISC‐V Integrated to improve the lives of children and adolescents.
Alan S. Kaufman, PhD, and Nadeen L. Kaufman, EdD, Series Editors
Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine
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