Batería IV
Batería IV Woodcock-Muñoz
The Batería IV Woodcock-Muñoz (Batería IV) is the parallel Spanish version of the Woodcock-Johnson IV (WJ IV™). It offers an efficient, effective assessment of cognitive abilities and academic skills for Spanish speakers age 2 - 90+. A typical administration requires only
5 - 10 minutes per subtest.
Description & Features
The Batería IV Woodcock-Muñoz (Batería IV) is the parallel Spanish version of Woodcock-Johnson IV (WJ IV). It provides an efficient and psychometrically sound assessment of cognitive abilities and academic skills with updated norms and content that reflects current Spanish linguistic conventions and culture.
Batería IV reports a variety of scores that utilize the same Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) framework as WJ IV, offering the same ease of use and flexibility that examiners need to accurately evaluate learning problems for Spanish speaking children and adults. As a parallel assessment to WJ IV, it even allows for a direct comparison of a student’s skills in Spanish and English when used in conjunction with WJ IV.
Goals of the Fourth Edition:
- Design a comprehensive assessment system to evaluate individuals whose native language is Spanish
- Facilitate an exploration of strengths and weaknesses across cognitive, linguistic, and academic abilities
- Enhance diagnostic capabilities by focusing on describing cognitive performance and understanding the nature of learning problems
- Increase the ease and flexibility of use for examiners
- Reframe variation and ability/achievement comparison procedures
- Go beyond CHC theory as conceived in the Bateria III
- Highlight important narrow abilities and consider cognitive complexity of tasks
Pruebas de aprovechamiento
(Tests of Achievement)
Restriction Level
Testing Ages
- All Batería IV batteries may be used with examinees aged 2–90+.
Time to Test
- A typical administration requires 5–10 minutes per subtest.
Selective Testing Information
- Click here to view detailed information on tests and clusters available in the
Batería IV Achievement Battery.
Cross-Domain Clusters include:
- Academic Skills
- Academic Fluency
- Academic Applications
- Brief Achievement
- Broad Achievement
Additional clusters can be obtained by administering tests from the Batería IV along with Spanish-language tests from the Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Oral Language:
- Vocabulary
- Listening Comprehension
- Oral Language
Batería III vs. Batería IV Comparison: What's New in the Pruebas de aprovechamiento
- A single test book
- The elimination of audio-recorded tests
- New norms
- Online scoring
- Qualitative Observation checklists for Tests 1–11
- Data on peer-based comparisons
- Co-normed with Batería IV Pruebas de habilidades cognitivas
Four New Tests
- Lectura oral/Oral Reading
- Rememoracion de lectura/Reading Recall
- Expresion de lenguaje escrito/Written Language Expression
- Numeros matrices/Number Matrices
Five New Clusters
- Lectura/Reading
- Fluidez en lectura/Reading Fluency
- Lenguaje escrito/Written Language
- Matematicas/Mathematics
- Aprovechamiento/Brief Achievement
Pruebas de habilidades cognitivas
(Tests of Cognitive Abilities)
The Batería IV Cognitive Battery includes 14 tests and 15 clusters. Use it to accurately pinpoint learning problems in native Spanish speakers, as well as measure the most contemporary specifications of CHC theory:
- Comprehension-Knowledge (Gc)
- Fluid Reasoning (Gf)
- Short-Term Working Memory (Gwm)
- Cognitive Processing speed (Gs)
- Auditory Processing (Ga)
- Long-Term Storage and Retrieval (Glr)
- Visual Processing (Gv)
Restriction Level
Testing Ages
- All Batería IV batteries may be used with examinees aged 2–90+.
Time to Test
- A typical administration requires 5–10 minutes per subtest.
Selective Testing Information
- Click here to view detailed information on tests and clusters available in the
Batería IV Cognitive Battery.
Batería III vs. Batería IV Comparison: What's New in the Pruebas de habilidades cognitivas
- Utilizes a single test book
- Includes 14 tests, six of which are new or modified from the previous edition
- Offers online scoring and reporting capabilities
- Provides a co-normed assessment with Batería IV Pruebas deaprovechamiento
- Facilitates effective evaluations of gifted and talented students
- Six new clusters have been added and the composition of each cluster has been revised to increase cognitive complexity
- Partial credit scoring and the need to establish basals and ceilings within item groupings have been eliminated to streamline test administration
- A strong emphasis has been placed on a core set of tests (tests 1–7)
- Specific tests from Bateria III and the WJ IV Tests of Oral Language can be administered to supplement the evaluation
Scoring & Reporting
The Batería IV Woodcock-Muñoz reports on a variety of scores that utilize the same Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) framework as the Woodcock-Johnson IV (WJ IV), offering the same ease of use and flexibility that examiners need to accurately evaluate learning problems for Spanish speaking children and adults.
All Batería IV scoring is completed through the Riverside Score system. Learn more here.
Authors
Dr. Criselda Guajardo Alvarado
Dr. Fredrick Schrank
Dr. Kevin McGrew
Dr. Nancy Mather
Dr. Richard W. Woodcock
Resources
Batería IV Assessment Service Bulletins
Assessment Service Bulletin #1
Batería IV Woodcock-Muñoz Technical Abstract