This popular achievement test provides a comprehensive assessment of academic abilities in 6- to 14-year-old students. It profiles strengths and weaknesses in the following areas: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, and Mathematics. DAB-3 is particularly useful in identifying students for special education placement or remedial planning.

 

The battery includes 14 subtests, all relevant to the assessment of learning disabilities:

 

• Story Comprehension

• Capitalization

• Characteristics

• Punctuation

• Synonyms

• Spelling

• Grammatic Completion

• Contextual Language

• Alphabet/Word Knowledge

• Math Reasoning

• Reading Comprehension

• Math Calculation

• Story Construction

• Phonemic Analysis

 

The entire battery can be individually administered in about 45 minutes. To reduce administration time, you can give the Spelling, Capitalization, Punctuation, and Math Calculation subtests in small groups. In addition, any of the 14 subtests can be administered independently and used diagnostically.

 

Standardized on more than 1,500 students, DAB-3 provides standard scores and percentiles for each subtest. By combining subtests, you can also generate various composite scores: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, Mathematics, Spoken Language, Written Language, and Total Achievement. These are useful in determining the child's global strengths and weaknesses.

 

The DAB-3 includes studies showing the absence of gender, ethnic, and disability bias; all new normative data; new validity studies; a new Story Comprehension audio tape; a supplemental manual that enables the examiner to probe student responses; realistic color pictures; and clearer administration procedures.

 

Easy to administer and score, the DAB-3 is an excellent resource for school psychologists and others concerned with the identification of learning problems, special education placement, and remedial planning.