WIAT III Case Study

The WIAT-III has several limitations to include the time it takes to administer, the measure is only available in English, the test is highly verbal, some of the scoring criteria for the writing sections did not provide an adequate explanation, and although the sample was normalized on over 2,000 students, it was still normalized on a very small number of people (Vaughan-Jensen, Adame, McLean, & Gamez, 2011). Administering the assessment can take over two hours for a person who is well training in administering the assessment. The WIAT-III is widely used therefore only having the measure in English is a limitation, everyone that is administer the assessment may not have English as their native language, resulting in misinterpretation of the

The limitation was that there were to many multiple-choice questions on the measure, less multiple-choice questions forces the test taker do think about the question rather than give an random answer out of the choice provided to them. This also brings up the question of how to address children with these issues and if there are any underlying issue that causes the child to randomly select an answer at random is this a sign of being impulsive. If there was not as many multiple-choice questions on the assessment, it would be interesting to see how that would impact the children attention span and if cognitive fatigue would be impacted. The Wechsler measure take an extensive time to administer, but this is not an area of immediate intervention. Mainly because the time that it takes to administer the assessment is not always in the clinician control. The client could utilize al their time allowed to them to answer their question, not including if the client need to use the bathroom. Even the most experienced clinician cannot directly control the length of time that it takes to administer the