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The Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test: Second Edition

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This chapter describes the essential characteristics of the UNIT2, its strengths and limitations, changes and improvements. The test is multidimensional, and assesses memory, reasoning, and quantitative reasoning using both a symbolic and nonsymbolic administration format. The UNIT2 is easy to administer, score, and interpret, and follows the same general format as the UNIT. The UNIT2 Examiner’s Manual includes a wealth of data describing the technical properties of the test, in greater detail than other intelligence tests (e.g., tables related to the adequacy of ceilings, floors, and item gradients; and a chapter devoted to fairness and equity studies). The UNIT2 maintained all of the original strengths of the UNIT derived from its nonverbal assessment approach. In addition to retaining its strongest features, the UNIT2 also addresses several of the identified limitations of the original test by expanding the age range of the assessment, improving floors and ceilings, improving the representative sample, updating item quality both visually and color-wise, and fine-tuning the test to make it even more user-friendly.

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    Alex Friedlander Moore & Bruce A. Bracken

  2. Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, University of Tennessee, 523 BEC, 1126 Volunteer Blvd, Knoxville, TN, 37996-3452, USA

    R. Steve McCallum

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Appendix : UNIT Interpretive Worksheet

Appendix : UNIT Interpretive Worksheet

  • Step1: Interpret the Global Intelligence Score

Scale

IQ

Confidence interval

Percentile rank

Descriptive category

 

90/95 Circle one

   

Abbreviated battery

90/95

   

Standard battery (with memory)

90/95

   

Standard battery (without memory)

90/95

   

Full scale

90/95

   

Step 2: Interpret the Construct-Specific Scores

Scale

IQ

Confidence interval

Percentile rank

Descriptive category

 

90/95 Circle one

   

Memory

90/95

   

Reasoning

90/95

   

Quantitative

90/95

   
  1. Note When an examinee’s scores on these three scales exhibit significant variability, the global intelligence score may not serve as a good estimate of global ability, and performance on the UNIT2 construct-specific composites should be interpreted

Index score

Difference statistically different?

Normative frequency of the difference

Memory-reasoning

  

Memory-quantitative

  

Reasoning-quantitative

  

Step 3: Interpret Subtest Performance

Pairwise Subtest Comparisons

Scaled score difference

Statistically different?

Normative frequency of difference?

Sym Mem-Spat Mem

  

Ana Reas-Cube Design

  

Nonsym Quan-Num Ser

  

Ipsative Subtest Comparisons:

Subtests frequency?

Scaled score

Rounded mean difference

Statistically different?

Strength/weakness

Sym Mem

    

Nonsym Quant

    

Ana Reas

    

Spat Mem

    

Num Series

    

Cube Des

    

MQ versus RQ Difference

Size needed for abnormality

Does size meet criteria?

 

20 points (Extreme 15%)

YES

NO

 

23 points (Extreme 10%)

YES

NO

 

27 points (Extreme 5%)

YES

NO

 

34 points (Extreme 1%)

YES

N0

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Friedlander Moore, A., McCallum, R.S., Bracken, B.A. (2017). The Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test: Second Edition. In: McCallum, R. (eds) Handbook of Nonverbal Assessment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50604-3_7

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