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This chapter presents the data related to writing and math skills and general academic knowledge for the VL2 Psychometric Toolkit Project. The data were generated using three subtests from the Woodcock-Johnson III (WJ-III) Tests of Achievement: Writing Fluency, Math Fluency, and Academic Knowledge. The sample was comprised of deaf college students evaluated as part of the VL2 Psychometric Toolkit. In addition to providing descriptive statistics, correlations with a brief measure of nonverbal intelligence and measures of executive, visuospatial, memory, and linguistic functioning and other areas of academic achievement administered concurrently as part of the VL2 Toolkit are presented. The relationships observed are discussed in the context of both research in the general population and, when available, previous research with deaf individuals.
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Morere, D.A. (2012). Measures of Writing, Math, and General Academic Knowledge. In: Morere, D., Allen, T. (eds) Assessing Literacy in Deaf Individuals. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5269-0_7
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