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Achievement testing refers to the practice of using achievement tests to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or level of academic skills an individual has acquired or mastered through the planned instruction that typically occurs in educational settings [1]. The practice of administering achievement tests may take place in the fields of school psychology, clinical psychology, and special education to assist in assessing academic proficiency or diagnosing learning disabilities, as well as in the field of clinical neuropsychology to assist in detecting individual strengths and deficits in patients with neuropsychological disorders affecting reading, computation, or writing skills [4].
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Achievement testing is a procedure of utilizing standardized achievement test batteries to assess the academic skills and abilities acquired from the process of direct educational instruction or intervention. Standardized achievement tests are characterized by being...
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Chang, M.Y., Davis, A.S. (2011). Achievement Testing. In: Goldstein, S., Naglieri, J.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79061-9_32
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