PTONI

Primary Test of Nonverbal Intelligence

Purpose: Assesses reasoning abilities in young children

Format: Paper and pencil

Age range: 3 years to 9 years, 11 months

Time: 5-15 minutes

DETAILS:

Theoretically sound and research-based, the PTONI assesses reasoning abilities in young children.

Ideal for diverse populations

• Featuring minimal oral directions and a pointing-response format, the PTONI is especially appropriate for testing children who have underdeveloped verbal and/or motor skills.

• PTONI directions are provided in eight alternative languages, making it an appropriate assessment of intelligence for children from diverse language backgrounds.

• Can be used to identify both severe intellectual deficits and superior cognitive intelligence; to help estimate future school success based on family history, educational background, and personality traits; and to study a wide range of researchable topics and issues.

• Test format requires a child to look at a series of pictures and to point to the one picture that does not belong with the others. Items are arranged in order of difficulty.

• Provides standard scores, percentile ranks, and age equivalents.

• Normative data (N = 1,010) from 38 states are representative of U.S. Census statistics.