(PAT-2:NU) The Phonological Awareness Test-2 : Normative Update
Carolyn Robertson, MEd / Wanda Salter, MS, CCC-SLP
Ages: 5 through 9 years
Administration: Individual; 40 mins.
The PAT-2:NU is a standardized assessment of phonological awareness, phoneme-grapheme correspondence, and phonemic decoding skills. Test results help educators focus on those aspects of oral language that may not be systematically targeted in classroom reading instruction.
New Features and Benefits:
• Characteristics of the normative sample were stratified by age relative to region, gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic factors, and other critical variables are the same as those reported for the school-age population reported the Statistical Abstract of the United States 2016 (ProQuest, LLC, 2016).
• Each item on the test was evaluated using both conventional item analysis to choose “good” items and differential analyses to find and eliminate potentially biased items.
• The subtests and composite scores were thoroughly examined for floor and ceiling effects.
• Criterion-prediction validity is evidenced by correlations with, and comparison of mean and standard deviations of, the CTOPP-2 Phonological Awareness Composite Score.
• New normative scores for the subtests were calculated in terms of scaled scores that have a mean of 10 and a standard deviation of 3.
• The Total Score was divided into the Phonological Awareness Index and the Phoneme-Grapheme Index. These scores are calculated as composite scores (another type of standard score) with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15.
The composites reflect direct linear transformations of the sums of scaled scores and give equal weight to each of the subtests that comprise the Phonological Awareness Index and Phoneme-Grapheme Index.
• The Examiner’s Manual was reorganized and rewritten to provide more detailed information on the administration, interpretation, and statistical characteristics of the test.
