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The Woodcock-Johnson IV (WJ IV; Schrank et al. 2014b) is the most recent iteration of the well-known Woodcock-Johnson battery of tests. Unlike previous versions which included a cognitive battery and an achievement battery, the WJ IV consists of three co-normed assessment batteries: the Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Cognitive Abilities (WJ IV COG; Schrank et al. 2014a), the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Achievement (WJ IV ACH; Schrank et al. 2014c), and the Woodcock-Johnson Test of Oral Language (WJ IV OL; Schrank et al. 2014d). Each of these assessment batteries can be used independently or in combination with one or both of the other batteries.
The norming sample for the WJ IV is comprised of 7,416 participants ranging from age 2 to 90 who were demographically representative of the United States population (Mather and Wendling 2014b; McGrew et al. 2014). An online scoring system is used to convert raw scores to standard scores, percentiles,...
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Hoover, K.L., Davis, A.S. (2017). Woodcock-Johnson IV. In: Kreutzer, J., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56782-2_1501-3
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