***This set includes The Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment, Third Edition packaged with an access card to download version 2.0 of the Cross-Battery Assessment Software System (XBASS).
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.
The Cross-Battery Assessment Software System (X-BASS) 2.0 allows school psychologists and other assessment professionals access to efficient, expert analysis of cross-battery assessment findings. It integrates the Cross-Battery Assessment Data Management and Interpretive Assistant, Pattern of Strengths and Weaknesses Analyzer, and Culture-Language Interpretive Matrix into a single program, covering the latest revisions of major batteries, including the new WISC(R)-V, WJ IV(R), KTEA(tm)-3, ChAMP, UNIT-2, RIAS-2, FAR, FAM, WISC(R)-V Integrated, WJV-IV ECAD, CELF(R)-5, CTOPP-2, CAS2, and over 125 psychological batteries and 1,000 subtests, all classified according to CHC theory. Preprogrammed formulas conduct the analyses and display the results within the context of CHC theory, and allow you to customize the parameters to answer specific questions. Compatible with Windows and Mac OS X, the internal database, single-instance data entry, automatic and integrated summary graphing, guided PSW analysis, and much more make X-BASS an essential one-stop within-battery and Cross-Battery Assessment solution.
About the Author: Dawn P. Flanagan, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology at St. John's University, Jamaica, New York, and the author of several books, including Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment (with Ortiz) and Essentials of WJ III(R) Cognitive Abilities Assessment (with Schrank, Woodcock, and Mascolo). The theory upon which the WISC(R)-IV is interpreted in this book-CHC theory-was first introduced in Dr. Flanagan's book on the Wechsler Scales, published in 2000 (with McGrew and Ortiz).
