The Cross-Battery Assessment approach—also referred to as the XBA approach—is a time-efficient assessment method grounded solidly in contemporary theory and research. The XBA approach systematically integrates data across cognitive, achievement, and neuropsychological batteries, enabling practitioners to expand their traditional assessments to more comprehensively address referral concerns. This approach also includes guidelines for identification of specific learning
The Cross-Battery Assessment approach—also referred to as the XBA approach—is a time-efficient assessment method grounded solidly in contemporary theory and research. The XBA approach systematically integrates data across cognitive, achievement, and neuropsychological batteries, enabling practitioners to expand their traditional assessments to more comprehensively address referral concerns. This approach also includes guidelines for identification of specific learning disabilities and assessment of cognitive strengths and weaknesses in individuals from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.Like all the volumes in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment, Third Edition is designed to help busy practitioners quickly acquire the knowledge and skills they need to make optimal use of psychological assessment instruments. Each concise chapter features numerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulleted points, and extensive illustrative material, as well as test questions that help you to gauge and reinforce your grasp of the information covered.Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment, Third Edition is updated to include the latest editions of cognitive ability batteries, such as the WISC®-IV, WAIS®-IV, and WJ III™ COG, and special purpose cognitive tests including the WMS®-IV and TOMAL®-II. This book now also covers many neuropsychological batteries such as the NEPSY®-II and D-KEFS™ and provides extensive coverage of achievement batteries and special purpose tests, including the WIAT®-III, KM-3, WRMT™-III and TOWL-4. In all, this book includes over 100 psychological batteries and 750 subtests, all of which are classified according to CHC, and many according to neuropsychological theory. This useful guide includes a timesaving CD-ROM, Essential Tools for
Unlike some of the other reviewers, I found this book to be a very well-written and laid out guide to the very complicated subject of XBA analysis. Yes, it's quite dense on acronyms and can get a bit dizzying at times, but it's the nature of the beast when combining multiple techniques and metrics. Cross-battery assessment is by its nature very technical and this book is not dumbed-down; as a professional you should be conversant in this kind of presentation of the material and if not, this will get you up ..
