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General Information:
Title of test:
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales (SB5), Fifth Edition
Author(s):
Gale H. Roid
Publisher, dates of publication, including dates of manuals, norms, and supplementary materials:
The Riverside Publishing Co. (2003)
Time required administering: Varies from 15 to 75 minutes, depending on which scales are gIven (Full
Scale IQ is 45 to 75 minutes, Abbreviated Battery IQ takes 15 to 20 minutes, Verbal IQ(based on the five
Verbal subtests) or the Nonverbal IQ(based on the five Nonverbal subtests); each of these takes
about 30 minutes to complete)
Cost:
ITEM AND PACKAGING
SB5 Complete Test Kit
(Includes 3 Item Books, Examiner’s Manual, Technical Manual, Child
Card, Layout Card, Manipulatives Kit and Storage Box, and Test
Records in a Carrying Case.)
SB5 Complete Kit with SB5 ScoringPro™ Package
Complete SB5 Kit with Interpretive Manual
SB5 Complete Kit with SB5 ScoringPro™ and Interpretive Manual
Test Records Pkg. 25
Manipulatives Kit
Carrying Case
Item book 1 (Routing Subtests)
Item book 2 (Nonverbal Subtests)
Item book 3 (Verbal Subtests)
Interpretive Manual: Expanded Guide to the Interpretation of the SB5
Test Results
SB5 ScoringPro, Version 1.2
SB5 University Traning Resources
Essentials of Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales (SB5) Assessment
Technical Manual
Examiner’s Manual
(From the Riverside Publishing order page.)
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Brief Description of Purpose and Nature of Test
General type of test:
Intelligence Test, Individually administered
Population for which designed:
2 to 85+ years
Nature of Content:
Working Memory
Fluid Reasoning, Knowledge, Quantitative Reasoning, Visual-Spatial Processing,
Subtests and separate scores:
Item types:
FACTORS
NONVERBAL (NV)
Fluid Reasoning
(FR)
Verbal Fluid Reasoning
Nonverbal Fluid Reasoning
Activities: Early Reasoning (2-3),
Activities: Object Series/Matrices
Verbal Absurdities (4), Verbal
(Routing)
Analogies (5-6)
Knowledge
(KN)
Nonverbal Knowledge
Verbal Knowledge
Activities: Procedural Knowledge
Activities: Vocabulary (Routing)
(2-3), Picture Absurdities (4-6)
Nonverbal Quantitative
Quantitative Reasoning Reasoning
Activities: Quantitative
(QR)
Reasoning (2-6)
VERBAL (V)
Verbal Quantitative Reasoning
Activities: Quantitative Reasoning (26)
Visual-Spatial
Processing
(VS)
Nonverbal Visual-Spatial
Processing
Activities: Form Board (1-2),
Form Patterns (3-6)
Working Memory
(WM)
Nonverbal Working Memory
Verbal Working Memory
Activities: Delayed Response (1), Activities: Memory for Sentences (2Block Span (2-6)
3), Last Word (4-6)
Verbal Visual-Spatial Processing
Activities: Position and Direction (26)
Practical Evaluation
Qualitative features of test materials:
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Wide variety of items requiring nonverbal performance by examinee - ideal for assessing
subjects with limited English, deafness, or communication disorders
Ability to compare verbal and nonverbal performance - useful in evaluating learning disabilities
Greater diagnostic and clinical relevance of tasks, such as verbal and nonverbal assessment of
working memory
Includes Full Scale IQ, Verbal and Nonverbal IQ, and Composite Indices spanning 5 dimensions
with a standard score mean of 100, SD 15
Includes subtest scores with a mean of 10, SD 3
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Extensive high-end items, many adapted from previous Stanford-Binet editions and designed to
measure the highest level of gifted performance
Improved low-end items for better measurement of young children, low functioning older
children, or adults with Mental Retardation
Enhanced memory tasks provide a comprehensive assessment for adults and the elderly
Co-normed with measures of visual-motor perception and test-taking behaviour
Scoreable by hand or with computer software
Enhanced artwork and manipulatives that are both colourful and child-friendly
The SB5 Complete Kit includes all 3 Item Books, Examiner's Manual, Technical Manual, 25 Test
Records, child card, layout card, a carrying case, and all manipulatives (form board, 10 form
board pieces, 9 green blocks, 12 counting rods, 30 sorting chips, spoon, pencil, 3 plastic cups,
and toys including cat, bird, duck, ball, car, and shoe) in a plastic storage case. The manipulatives
used engaged the attention of young children. It is administered through an easy-to-learn easel
format of three books. Each Easel Book has illustrations on one side, and detailed examiner
directions on the other.
Ease of administration, including facilities for computer administration:
For ease of administration, the SB5 is organized into three item books printed on an easel
format that includes all administration directions. The easel format allows examinees to easily
view test materials, but also allows the examiner to easily record and score responses
behind the easel. The first item book includes the two routing subtests, whereas the second
item book contains Levels 1-6 of the Nonverbal subtests. The third Item book contains Levels 2-6
of the Verbal subtests.
Item Book 1 includes the Matrices and Vocabulary subtests, used as the initial assessment, or
Abbreviated Battery IQ.
Item Book 2 has the Nonverbal subtests, arranged according to level of difficulty (Levels 1-6).
Different levels allow the test to be tailored to the examinee’s ability, saving time and making
the assessment accurate and reliable.
Item Book 3 has the Verbal subtests, arranged by level of difficulty
Clarity of directions:
Early SB5, like SB5, has ten subtests. Two subtests – Nonverbal Fluid Reasoning (Matrices) and
Verbal Knowledge (Vocabulary) – cover the age range 2-0 through 7-3 and provide initial scores
for tailoring the remaining test administration to the ability level of the child. Toys,
manipulatives and brightly colored illustrations help engage young children. The remaining eight
subtests offer scores in the preschool range, from 2-0 through 5-11 to measure Quantitative,
Visual-Spatial, and Working Memory abilities. Testing begins in Item Book 1 with the two initial
subtests, which are retained in their entirety and used to calculate an Abbreviated Battery IQ.
All remaining subtests are contained in Item Book 2. This provides a streamlined administration
compared to the 3 Item Book format of the full SB5. Each Item Book is designed as an "easel"
with illustrations and stimuli facing the child and directions (including all examiner prompts,
materials layout, and scoring directions) conveniently facing the examiner, as compared to other
IQ measures that require a separate test manual of directions. The Record Form guides the
examiner through the administration and provides familiar, easy-to-use scoring directions. In
the Early SB5, only the most difficult levels of items have been dropped from the subtests in
Item Book 2. Dropping these more difficult items generally has no impact on the scores of the
young children typically assessed with Early SB5.
Scoring procedures, including computer-scoring services and available software
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Points are summed for each of the subtests & converted to a “scaled score”
-- Scaled subtest scores have a mean of 10 & a standard deviation of 3
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Scores can also be computed for nonverbal IQ, verbal IQ, full-scale IQ and each of the five
factors (fluid reasoning, knowledge, quantitative reasoning, visual-spatial processing, working
memory)
-- These “standard scores” have a mean of 100 & a standard deviation of 15
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Scoring Software
The SB5 Scoring Pro is a Windows-based software program that replicates the process of handscoring - users enter background information, age, and raw scores. This program provides
consistency in raw score conversion, an extended score report, a graphical report, and a brief,
narrative summary report with guidelines and suggestions based on well-established principles
of assessment. The report can be exported and then imported to a word processing file for
editing as necessary.
Minimum System Requirements: Windows 98 / NT4.0 / ME / 2000 / XP, Pentium 200 MHz
processor, 64 MB RAM (96 MB recommended), CD-ROM or DVD drive, SVGA monitor (.NETcompatible video card), 100 MB free hard disk space.
Examiner qualifications and training required
High Master’s degree and/or doctorate in education, psychology, or related field.
Graduate level training in one or more of the following:
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Intelligence/cognitive assessment
Neuropsychology
Technical Evaluation:
The SB5 is based on the Cattell-Born-Carroll (CHC) theory of cognitive functioning that has
been investigated empirically over several decades (D'Amato, Fletcher-Janzen, &- Reynolds, in press).
Several other recent intelligence tests have also been based on elements of CHC theory, and studies
on earlier versions of the Binet scales revealed distinguishable CHC factors. The SB5 is composed of
~.factors (out of 10) of theCHC model including (CHC factors in parentheses): Fluid Reasoning (Fluid
Intelligence or Gf), Knowledge (Crystallized Knowledge or Gc), Quantitative Reasoning (Quantitative
Knowledge or Gq), Visual-Spatial Processing (Visual Processing or Gv), and Working Memory (Short
Term Memory or Gsm).
Norm
The Stanford-Binet is a standardized test, meaning that norms were established during the
design phase of the test by administering the test to a large, representative sample of the test
population. The test has a mean, or average, standard score of 100 and a standard deviation of 16
(subtests have a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 8). The standard deviation indicates how far
above or below the norm the subject's score is. For example, an eight-year-old is assessed with the
Stanford-Binet scale and achieves a standard age score of 116. The mean score of 100 is the average
level at which all eight-year-olds in the representative sample performed. This child's score would be
one standard deviation above that norm.
While standard age scores provide a reference point for evaluation, they represent an average
of a variety of skill areas. A trained psychologist will evaluate and interpret an individual's performance
on the scale's subtests to discover strengths and weaknesses and offer recommendations based upon
these findings.
Standardization sample: nature, size, representatives, procedures followed in obtaining sample,
availability of subgroup norms:
The norming of the SB5 is one of the most impressive aspects of the instrument. A sample of
4,800 participants, ranging from age 2 to over 85 were closely matched to variables in 2001 U.S. Census
Bureau documents. The stratification variabIes included sex, age, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic level,
and geographic region. The sample included young children (ages 2-5), 1,000 children (ages 6-10),
1,322 adolescents/young adults (11-20), and 1,onf adults (21-80+). The geographic regions in the
Census (Midwest, South, Northeast, and West) were used in stratifying the sample for the SB5.
Additionally, the SB-5 was co-normed with the Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test, 2nd Edition,
and linked to the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Achievement
Reliability
Reliabilities for the SB-5 are very high. For the Full Scale IQ, Nonverbal IQ and Verbal IQ, reliabilities range
from .95 to .98 (average internal consistency composite reliability across all age groups). Reliabilities for the Factor
Indexes range from .90 to .92. For the ten subtests, reliabilities range from .84 to.89. Extensive validity studies were
conducted, including clinical-group differences, correlations with other tests, age trends, factor structure, and
consequential validity. Many of these studies are presented in the Technical Manual and others in the Supplemental
Interpretive Manual.
Long term stability when available
The ideal time period before retesting with the same test is one year or more. Published
research has not pinpointed an exact time; however, the main principal is to allow enough time so that
examinees will not easily recall specific tasks and items. Perhaps a nine-month interval could be
tolerated in cases where students have passed into another grade level. A nine-month interval for
elderly might also be possible in cases of memory loss.
Validity
Concurrent and criterion validity data were obtained using the SB-IV,SB-LM, WJ III®, UNIT,
Bender-Gestalt II, WPPSI-R®,WAIS®-III, WIAT®-II, and WISC-III®. Construct validity was obtained from the
analyses of age trends for each of the five factor scores, which included both growth and decline,
intercorrelations of tests, factors, IQs, and evidence for general ability.
Preliminary evidence content:-related, criterion-related, concurrent, and construct-related
validity is presented in the SB5 technical manual. Of course, validity of the SB5 will also be gathered
after publication as it is used in the field and in research studies. The test development of the SB5 which
was a 7-year process, underwent extensive expert review of items and subtests, numerous pilot studies
and reviews of the tryout0 edition. Additionally, the SB5 was found to be highly correlated with major
cognitive tests such as the Wechsler scales and previous editions of the Stanford-Binet.