AAB- ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT BATTERY (2014) - Comprehensive Form Print Kit, Product Range

The AAB Comprehensive Form is a broad battery of tests that covers a wide range of achievement domains in children and adults ages 4 to 85 years. It assesses performance in the main areas of achievement defined by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA; 2004):

• Oral expression
• Listening comprehension
• Written expression
• Basic reading skill
• Reading fluency skills
• Reading comprehension
• Mathematics calculation
• Mathematics problem solving

• Administration and scoring are straightforward and easy – and both comprehensive and screening versions have a Fast Guide to help you get started.
• Provides age- and grade-based (fall and spring) norms.
• Can be administered in about 90 minutes and scored in 15 minutes.
• The Academic Achievement Battery Composite, a total score, provides an overview of the individual’s overall performance on the various aspects of achievement measured by the AAB.
• A skills analysis enables you to investigate the individual’s strengths and weaknesses and offers a wealth of data with which to make interpretations and recommendations.
• Provides composite-to-composite and subtest-to-subtest discrepancy scores and reliable change scores.

• AAB subtest and composite scores were found to be highly correlated with similar constructs on the WJ III, KTEA-II, WRAT4, and WIAT-III.
• The manual includes evidence supporting the ability of the AAB to differentiate performance in individuals with various learning disabilities, intellectual disorder, ADHD, and speech/language impairment.
• Includes reliable change scores and ability-achievement discrepencies with the RIAS-2.

Reliability: Reliability coefficients for the subtests range from .77 to .97 and from .88 to .98 for the composite scores across the age- and grade-based normative samples.

Norms: Age-based sample formed on a US population of 1,274 individuals ages 4-83. Grade-based sample formed on a US population of 1,447 individuales ages 4-19 years.

Administration Time: Comprehensive Form: 90 minutes to administer; 15 minutes to score.

Publication Date: 2014