Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement, Third Edition (KTEA-3)

Overview:  Individually administered battery that provides in-depth assessment of key academic skills.

Qualification Level: B

Age Range:  Individuals 4:0–25:11

Administration:  Paper-and-pencil

Completion Time:  15-85 min for ASB Composite

Scores/Interpretation:  Age- and grade-based standard scores (M = 100, SD = 15), age and grade equivalents, percentile ranks, normal curve equivalents (NCEs), stanines, and Growth Scale Value (GSV)

Empower all your students to succeed and receive a deeper understanding of achievement gaps with the new KTEA-3. This comprehensive assessment of key academic skills maintains all the important features of the KTEA-II and offers a wealth of exciting updates for targeted interventions.

Users & Applications

Special education teachers, school psychologists, educational diagnosticians, and other professionals use this tool to help:

• Evaluate academic skills in reading, math, written language, and oral language
   
• Measure progress or response to intervention and adjust instruction based on performance
   
• Identify learning disabilities on a core level

Content & Administration

Subtests

• Phonological Processing (PP)
   
• Math Concepts & Applications (MCA)
   
• Letter & Word Recognition (LWR)
   
• Math Computation (MC)
   
• Nonsense Word Decoding (NWD)
   
• Writing Fluency (WF)
   
• Silent Reading Fluency (SRF)
   
• Math Fluency (MF)
   
• Reading Comprehension (RC)
   
• Written Expression (WE)
   
• Associational Fluency (AF)
   
• Spelling (SP)
   
• Object Naming Facility (ONF)
   
• Reading Vocabulary (RV)
   
• Letter Naming Facility (LNF)
   
• Listening Comprehension (LC)
   
• Word Recognition Fluency (WRF)
   
• Oral Expression (OE)
   
• Decoding Fluency (DF)

Features & Benefits

• New norms for ages 4:0 through 25:11 and for grades pre-K through 12
   
• Mapping to Common Core Standards to assist with compliancy issues
   
• Behavioral checklist to look at how the child responds during testing
   
• Lower age range to age 4 and preschool norms to identify issues earlier
   
• Scoring and reporting on Q-global
   
• Intervention suggestions for parents and teachers to expand the effectiveness of your evaluation
   
• Easy to administer, score, and interpret
   
• Coverage of all IDEA and National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
   
• Novel tasks to motivate low-functioning students
   
• Alternate forms and Growth Scale Value (GSV) to easily measure progress
   
• Enhanced error analysis procedures for more precise intervention

Psychometric Information

• All new normative data collected from July 2011 through July 2013
   
• Age-norm sample includes 3,000 individuals aged 4:0–25:11
   
• Grade norms are based on 2,600 students in Grades PreK–12

KTEA-3 Form A Kit #32400
Includes Administration Manual, Scoring Manual, 2 Stimulus Books, USB Flash Drive (contains Technical Manual, Audio Files, Scoring Keys, Hand Scoring Forms, Letter Checklist, Qualitative Observations Form, Error Analysis Forms), Form A Record Forms (25), Form A Response Booklet (25), 3 Form A Written Expression booklets (2 each), soft-sided carrying bag.

KTEA-3 Form B Kit #32401
Includes Administration Manual, Scoring Manual, 2 Stimulus Books, USB Flash Drive (contains Technical Manual, Audio Files, Scoring Keys, Hand Scoring Forms, Letter Checklist, Qualitative Observations Form, Error Analysis Forms), Form B Record Forms (25), Form B Response Booklet (25), 3 Form B Written Expression booklets (2 each), soft-sided carrying bag.