The SBS is a collection of 10 subtests, providing Nonverbal, Verbal, and Full Scale IQ scores and other diagnostic indexes, offers highly reliable assessment of intellectual and cognitive abilities, based on a large normative sample of 4,800 individuals, ages 2 to 85+. The S65 provides a comprehensive profile of scores to document the cognitive strengths and weaknesses of children, adolescents, and adults with learning difficulties, delays, and disabilities.
Materials and Test Administration:
The SBS has a display box filled with blocks, toys, chips, and other manipulatives that engage the attention of children and examinees of all ages. The test is easy to learn because it is administered in an "easel" format with three Item Books. Each page of the Item Books has illustrations on one side for the examinee and detailed directions for the examiner on the other
side. Each item has the spoken directions that examiners read in boldface type, along with other directions for using manipulatives, scoring guidelines, and correct answers. So, examiners do not need a separate manual to read while arranging stimuli and manipulatives.
Item Books and Record Form:
• Item Book I: Matrices and Vocabulary subtests used as an initial assessment or Abbreviated Battery IQ
• Item Book 2: Nonverbal subtests, arranged according to levels of difficulty, from Level 1 to 6-used to adapt the test to the examinee's ability (based on the initial Matrices subtest of Item
Book 1 ). Levels allow the test to be tailored to the examinee's ability.
• Item Book 3: Verbal subtests arranged in levels of difficulty. The examinee begins at the level
suggested by the Vocabulary subtest in Item Book 1 .
• Record Form: designed to match the widely used format of other IQ tests and guides the examiner through the initial subtests, the Nonverbal sections, and Verbal sections in that order.
(SB5) Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales
Requires User Qualification Form
Gale H. Roid
Ages: 12 through 24.11 years
Administration: Individual/Group; 60 min.
The SBS Complete Kit includes:
• Examiner's Manual
• Technical Manual
• Item Book I (Routing Subtest)
• Item Book 2 (Nonverbal Subtest)
• ltemBook3 (Verbal Subtest)
• Record Forms ( 25)
• Manipulatives
Fifth Edition
Valid and reliable assessment of intellectual functioning is an important need in many assessment practices, and the Early S65 provides a psychometrically superior, accessible, and cost-effective test of intelligence for use with young children.
The Early S65, like the SBS, has 10 subtests. Two routing subtests (Nonverbal Fluid Reasoning and Verbal Knowledge) cover the age range 2.0 through 7.3, while the remaining eight subtests offer scores in the preschool range, from 2.0 through 5.11. As with the SBS, testing begins in Item Book 1 with the two routing subtests, which are retained in their entirety. However, all remaining subtests into which the first two subtests route are contained in Item Book 2, with only the most difficult levels of items dropping across those subtests. Dropping these more difficult items will generally have no impact on the scores of the young children typically assessed with the Early 5B5.
Benefits of the Early SB5:
• Provides comprehensive coverage of five factors of cognitive ability
• Includes child-friendly toys/manipulatives
• Enhanced nonverbal/low-verbal content, requiring minimal verbal response from examinee
• Usefulness in assessing for LEP/ELL, deaf and hard of hearing, and autistic populations
• Offers Low-end items to ensure measurement of low-functioning children
• Document behavior during testing with the Test Observation Checklist
• Facilitate communication with the child's parent/guardian/caregiver with the Parent Report
(SBE5) Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales for Early Children
Requires User Qualification Form
Gale H. Roid
Ages: 2.0 through 7.3 years
Administration: Individual; 15 • 50 minutes
The Early SBS Complete Kit includes:
• Examiner's Manual
• Item Book I (Routing Subtest)
• Item Book 2 (Nonverbal Subtest)
• Manipulatives
Fifth Edition
