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When school-aged children are referred to the clinician for diagnosis, it is helpful to assess educational achievement since often academic problems are associated with a broad range of behavioral dysfunction.1 Assessing performance in school subject areas is also important in monitoring a child’s learning progress as well as in preparing school programs or interventions. Achievement tests attempt to measure the effects of a relatively standardized set of academic experiences such as that obtained in the public school system. This is in contrast to readiness tests, for example, the Metropolitan Readiness Tests, which try to predict how well prepared a child might be for school.2
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Gabel, S., Oster, G.D., Butnik, S.M. (1986). Educational and Perceptual Testing. In: Understanding Psychological Testing in Children. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0554-3_8
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