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Ages: 5-0 to 17-11 years
Time: Abbreviated Battery: 10-15 minutes; Standard Battery: 30 minutes; and Extended Battery: 45 minutes
Administration: Individual

Features

• Provides entirely nonverbal stimulus and response administration format incorporating eight hand and body gestures
• Offers Abbreviated, Standard, and Extended batteries
• Offers a wide breadth of use with exceptional students including mentally retarded, learning disabled, and gifted
• Provides a fair measure for deaf and hearing-impaired students
• Reduces situational sources of test bias
• Incorporates multiple response modes including: manipulatives, paper and pencil, and pointing

The UNIT™ is designed for use with children and adolescents and is intended to provide a fair assessment of intelligence for individuals who have speech, language, or hearing impairments; different cultural or language backgrounds; or those who are verbally uncommunicative. The manual describes studies of the UNIT™ being used with African Americans, Asians, Hispanics, Native Americans, and individuals with limited English proficiency or those who are deaf/hearing impaired. Diagnostic information is provided relevant to common educational exceptionalities, including mental retardation, giftedness, and learning disabilities.

Administration
Unlike many nonverbal tests, the UNIT™ subtests require multiple response modes, including use of manipulative, paper-and-pencil, and pointing. The subtests were developed to engage and interest children across races, ethnicities, and cultures. The examiner uses eight relatively universal hand and body gestures to explain tasks to the examinee. In addition to these gestures, UNIT™ administration employs examiner demonstrations, sample items, corrective responses, transitional checkpoint items, and scored items that do not permit examiner feedback.

Scoring and Interpretation
Each of the six subtests will yield scores with a mean of 10 and a standard deviation of 3. In addition, the following five quotient scores are available, each with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15: Full Scale Intelligence Quotient (FSIQ), Memory Quotient (MQ), Reasoning Quotient (RQ), Symbolic Quotient (SQ), and Nonsymbolic Quotient (NSQ).

Standardized through a carefully designed stratified random sampling plan, the UNIT™ resulted in a sample that closely matches the population according to 1995 U.S. Census data. Normative data were collected from a comprehensive national sample of 2,100 children and adolescents ages 5-17.11 years. Data were collected in 108 sites across 38 states. When individuals from reliability, validity, and fairness studies are included in the standardization sample, a total of 3,865 children and adolescents were examined.

Reliabilities are high, and validity studies include exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, which provide consistent support for the structure of the UNIT™. Validity studies show strong concurrent validity with many other measures of intelligence, and the UNIT™ appears to be a good predictor of academic achievement. In addition, discriminant validity evidence is reported, demonstrating that the UNIT™ differentiates among individuals with mental retardation, learning disabilities, or speech/language impairments, or those who are gifted.

Compuscore™ Software Program
This program provides an accurate and quick scoring solution to users of the UNIT™ who are currently hand-scoring. The program enables examiners to compare scores quickly and easily as the software converts raw scores to scaled scores and allows for changes in confidence bands and significance levels. The report generated by the UNIT™ Compuscore contains a short narrative, which can be exported into a word processing file. System Requirements: Windows® 95/98/ NT/2000/ME/XP, 20MB hard disk space, 32MB of free RAM,and CD-ROM drive

University Training CD-ROM
Designed for use by university trainers, this package contains all the information an instructor needs to become familiar with the UNIT™. This CD-ROM features presentation materials, the UNIT™ Training Videotape, sections from the Examiner’s Manual, comparative features with other nonverbal measure of intelligence, and more. The UNIT™ presentation materials are also provided in PowerPoint format, allowing instructors to customize these materials. The Training Videotape covers the test’s theoretical bases and answers questions concerning development, administration, and interpretation.

COMBO UNIT™ TEST KIT (with CARRYING CASE) INCLUDES:

• Examiner’s Manual
• Stimulus Books I and 2
• 25 Mazes Response Booklets
• 25 Record Forms
• 25 Abbreviated Record Forms
• and an Object Kit (16 Response Chips, Response Grid, 9 Cubes, Response Mat, 10 Symbolic Memory Cards, Black Pencil, Red Pencil, and Administration-at-a-Glance)
• all in a sturdy canvas carrying case.
  

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