SB5

Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition

Purpose: Assesses intelligence and cognitive abilities

Format: Paper and pencil

Age range: 2 years to 85 years

Time: 5 minutes per subtest

DETAILS:

The SB5 provides comprehensive coverage of five factors of cognitive ability: fluid reasoning, knowledge, quantitative reasoning, visual-spatial processing, and working memory.

Features and Benefits

• Advances the assessment of strengths and weaknesses in the cognitive processes of students; information on special predictive composite scores for identifying disabilities in both reading and math is available in the Interpretive Manual.

• Helpful in diagnosing a wide variety of developmental disabilities and exceptionalities and also may be useful in clinical and neuropsychological assessment, early childhood assessment, psychoeducational evaluations for special education placements, and more.

• Enhanced nonverbal/low-verbal content requires minimal or no verbal responses from the examinee.

• Useful in assessing LEP/ELL, deaf and hard-of-hearing, and autistic populations.

• Extensive high-end items measure the highest levels of gifted performance, while improved low-end items better measure low functioning children and adults.

• Ideal for measuring basic psychological processes in problem-solving models like RTI.