Wide Range Intelligence Test (WRIT)

The Wide Range Intelligence Test (WRIT) is an efficient measure of general intelligence with administration times averaging less than 30 minutes. Only one set of materials is required to assess the full age range (4-85 years).

The WRIT provides colourful, attractive and engaging sub-tests that encourage participation from the individual being evaluated, regardless of age.

The conceptual roots of the WRIT come from a hierachical model of ability familiar to psychologists trained in individual testing.

Areas Measured

The WRIT assesses both verbal and non-verbal abilities by means of verbal and visual scales. Each scale consists of two sub-tests that address a group of specific abilities:

• helps to document ability levels and cognitive ability
• helps to identify learning disabilities, giftedness, neuropsychological impairments and other exceptionalities
• when used with the Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT) with which it is co-normed, allows for sound and efficient identification of intelligence/achievement discrepancy.

Verbal Scales

• Vocabulary: this sub-test requires the test-taker to verbally define a word that has been dictated and used in a sentence by the assessor
• Verbal Analogies: this sub-test requires the completion of verbal analogies dictated by the assessor.

Visual Scales

• Diamonds: this sub-test requires the test-taker to construct specific designs using single or multiple diamond shaped pieces
• Matrices: this sub-test requires the evaluation of a series of pictures to select the option that best completes a visual array.

The WRIT yields a Verbal (Crystallised) IQ and a Visual (Fluid) IQ which generates a General IQ when combined.

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