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TEST OF MEMORYAND LEARNING
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Now includes expanded norms, reduced administration time, and improved
scoring. .
The SAGES-2 is helpful in identifying gifted students in kindergarten
through
eighth grade.
Its three subtests assess aptitude and achievement to identify
gifted
students. Aptitude is measured via the Reasoning subtest. The student is
asked to solve problems by identifying relationships among pictures and
figures. The other two subtests (Mathematics/Science
and Language Arts/Social Studies) assess achievement. Both of these
subtests require the child to respond to questions in a multiple-choice
format; items require recall, understanding, and application of ideas
and basic concepts in the content areas. The subtests can be used
to examine the relationships between aptitude and achievement.
The SAGES-2 can be used with students ranging in age from 5.0-14.11
years.
Each untimed subtest requires approximately 20 minutes to
administer. All of
the SAGES-2 subtests can be administered individually
or in small groups.
The SAGES-2 has several uses:
• To identify students as gifted in the areas of intellectual and
academic ability.
• To screen entire pools of students for possible inclusion in gifted
programs.
• To examine strengths and weaknesses in academic and reasoning
abilities.
• To serve as a measurement device in research studies investigating
intellectual and
academic ability in gifted students.
The SAGES-2 was normed on two large samples tested in 1998 and 1999.
Sample One
(normal sample) consisted of 3,023 students who were in heterogeneous
classrooms,
and Sample Two (gifted sample) consisted of 2,290 students who were
identified as gifted
by their local school districts. The demographic characteristics of both
samples were
matched to those of the 1997 U.S. Census. The normative sample was
stratified on the basis
of age, gender, race, ethnic group membership, and geographic location.
Standard scores
and percentile ranks are provided for both samples.
The reliability coefficients for the test are high, ranging from
.77-.95; 97% of these reach or exceed .80, and 74% reach or exceed .90.
Test-retest studies show that the SAGES-2 is
stable over time.
Extensive validity data are reported as well, documenting the test's
relationship
to the
WISC®-III, OLSAT™, Stanford Achievement Test, and Gifted and Talented
Evaluation Scale,
and its efficiency in discriminating groups appropriately.
Note: The SAGES-2 is not intended for identifying children for classes
emphasizing talents
in creative, artistic, or leadership areas.
Complete kit:
SAGES-2 Examiner's Manual, 10 K-3 Mathematics/Science Student Response
Booklets,
10 K-3 Language Arts/Social Studies Student Response Booklets,
10 K-3
Reasoning
Student Response Booklets, 10 4-8 Mathematics/Science
Student Response
Booklets,
10 4-8 Language Arts/Social Studies Student Response Booklets, 10 4-8
Reasoning
Student Response Booklets, 50 K-3 Profile/Scoring Sheets, 50 4-8
Profile/Response
Sheets, and 4-8 Scoring Transparency
The TOMAL-2 is a memory battery used for evaluating general and
specific
memory function for children, adolescents, and adults ages 5 years
through 59 years
11 months. The standard battery for the TOMAL-2 consists of 8 core
subtests, 6
supplementary subtests, and 2 delayed recall tasks.
TOMAL-2 subtests include Memory for Stories, Facial Memory, Word
Selective Reminding, Visual Selective Reminding, Object Recall, Abstract
Visual Memory,
Digits Forward, Visual Sequential Memory, Paired Recall,
Memory for Location, Manual Imitation, Letters Forward, Digits Backward,
and Letters Backward,
plus 2 verbal delayed recall tasks and cued recall
procedures. TOMAL-2 core indexes consist of the Verbal Memory Index,
Nonverbal Memory Index, and Composite Memory Index. TOMAL-2
supplementary indexes are composed
of the Verbal Delayed Recall Index,
Learning Index, Attention and Concentration Index, Sequential Memory
Index, Free Recall Index, and the Associative Recall Index.
New in the TOMAL-2:
• Reduced administration time.
• Additional analyses to ensure a culturally fair assessment of memory.
• Improved scoring and administration.
• Expanded norms--now normed for children, adolescents, and adults, ages
5 years through 59 years 11 months.
• Reformulated core subtests and core indexes.
• Redesigned, convenient to use Record Booklet.
• New Verbal Delayed Recall Index.
• Additional interpretive tables and text.
Reliability
The TOMAL-2 scores include standardized or scaled scores and
percentiles.
Subtest scaled scores appear in a familiar metric with a
mean of 10 and a
standard deviation of 3. Composite scores and indexes
also are scaled to a
familiar metric for ease of use and comparability
with other tests (M = 100;
SD = 15). Reliability estimates are uniformly
high, with all composite and
some subtest reliability values in the
.90s, with the balance exceeding .85.
Test-retest reliability
coefficients are all greater than .70 for the subtests,
with most
greater than .80. For the composite indexes all but one value exceeds
.80.
Validity
The TOMAL-2 was normed on more than 1,900 children, adolescents, and
adults ages 5
years through 59 years 11 months, drawn from 31 states representing
all
major regions
of the United States. The sample was designed to be representative of
the U.S. population
as a whole on gender, age, ethnicity, urban/rural residence, and
geographic distribution.
The TOMAL-2 also was evaluated at the item and subtest levels for both
gender and ethnic
bias. The results of these studies provide strong evidence for a lack of
bias and favor consistency across gender and across U.S.-born ethnic
populations.
TOMAL-2 Complete Kit
(includes TOMAL-2 Examiner's Manual, Picture Book A, Picture Book B, 25
Profile/Summary Forms, 25 Examiner Record Booklets, a set of Delayed
Recall Cue Cards, Visual Selective Reminding Test Board, and 15 Facial
Memory Chips)
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