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Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Achievement (WJ III®)

Richard W. Woodcock, Kevin S. McGrew & Nancy Mather, Riverside Publishing, 2001.

The WJ III® measures a great many aspects of academic achievement with a wide variety of relatively brief tests. Many of these achievement tests can be used with the WJ III® Tests of Cognitive Abilities to assess a student’s abilities on many specific McGrew, Flanagan, and Ortiz Integrated Cattell-Horn-Carroll Gf-Gc (CHC) "cognitive factors." Examiners are permitted to select the tests they need to assess abilities in which they are interested for a particular student. The WJ III® was normed on 8,818 children and adults (4,783 in grades kindergarten through 12) in a well-designed, national sample. The same persons also provided norms for the WJ III® tests of academic achievement, so the ability and achievement tests can be compared directly, and cognitive and achievement tests can be combined to measure CHC factors.

The description below are not the "official" descriptions provided by the WJ III® manual.

1. Letter-Word Identification	naming letters and reading words aloud from a list.
2. Reading Fluency	speed of reading sentences and answering "yes" or "no" to each.
9. Passage Comprehension	orally supplying the missing word removed from each sentence or very brief paragraph (e.g., "Woof," said the _____, biting the hand that fed it.").
13. Word Attack	reading nonsense words (e.g., plurp, fronkett) aloud to test phonetic word attack skills.
17. Reading Vocabulary	orally stating synonyms and antonyms for printed words and orally completing written analogies (e.g., elephant : big :: mouse : ____ ).

7. Spelling	writing letters and words from dictation.
8. Writing Fluency	writing simple sentences, using three given words for each item and describing a picture, as quickly as possible for seven minutes.
11. Writing Samples	writing sentences according to directions; many items include pictures; spelling does not count on most items.
16. Editing	orally correcting deliberate errors in typed sentences.
18. Spelling of Sounds	written spelling of dictated nonsense words.
22. Punctuation and Capitalization	formal writing test of these skills.

5. Calculation	involves arithmetic computation with paper and pencil.
6. Math Fluency	speed of performing simple calculations for 3 minutes.
10. Applied Problems	are oral, math "word problems," solved with paper and pencil.
18. Quantitative Concepts	oral questions about mathematical factual information, operations signs, etc.

3. Story Recall	the student answers oral questions about stories that were dictated to the student.
4. Understanding Directions	the student follows oral directions to point to different parts of pictures.
12 Story Recall – Delayed	the student answers questions about the stories heard earlier.
14. Picture Vocabulary	the student points to named pictures or names pictures.
15. Oral Comprehension	the student provides anto- or synonyms to spoken words and completes oral analogies (e.g., elephant is to big and mouse is to ___ )
19. Academic Knowledge	oral questions about factual knowledge of science, social studies, and humanities.
21. Sound Awareness	rhyming, deletion, substitution, and reversing of spoken sounds.