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Universal Nonverbal Intelligence TestCATEGORY: Ability AUTHORS: Bruce A. Bracken, R. Steve McCallum RANGE: K to 12TIME: 10-15 minutes for the abbreviated Battery; 30 minutes
for the Standard Battery; and 45 minutes for the Extended Battery SCORES: SS, PR, Confidence intervals for all Quotients; Scales Scores and Test Age Equivalents for all subjects SUMMARY
To provide a fair assessment of general intelligence, measured nonverbally.The Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test (UNIT) is designed to provide a fair, comprehensive, standardized, and norm-referenced assessment of general intelligence with entirely nonverbal administration and response formats. A major goal in developing UNIT was to ensure fairness for all students, irrespective of race, ethnicity, sex, language, country of origin, and hearing status. Unlike many nonverbal tests which include just matrices, the UNIT subtests require multiple response modes, including use of manipulatives, paper and pencil, and pointing. The materials and test stimuli are designed to be relatively universal and cross-cultural. The tasks are engaging to children across races, ethnicity's, and cultures.
INTENDED USESDesigned for use with children and adolescents from ages 5 years through 17 years, the UNIT is intended to provide a fair assessment of intelligence for individuals who have speech, language, or hearing impairments, different cultural or language backgrounds, as well as those who are verbally uncommunicative. Special studies are reported in the manuals describing use of the UNIT with African Americans, Asians, Hispanics, Native Americans, and individuals with limited English proficiency. Studies with deaf and hearing impaired students are also reported. A Diagnostic information relevant to common educational exceptionalities, including mental retardation, giftedness, and learning disabilities is provided. SCORES AVAILABLEEach of the six subtests will yield scaled scores with a mean of 10 and a standard deviation of 3. In addition, there are 5 quotient scores available, each with a mean of 100 and standard deviation of 15: Full Scale Intelligence Quotient (FSIQ); Memory Quotient (MQ); Reasoning Quotient (RQ); Symbolic Quotient (SQ); and Nonsymbolic Quotient (NSQ).
ORGANIZATIONThe UNIT assesses a broad range of complex memory and reasoning abilities including those lending themselves to internal processes of verbal (Symbolic) mediation as well as those that are less conducive to such mediation (Nonsymbolic). There are six subtests in the UNIT, organized into the following four quotients:
100% NONVERBAL ADMINISTRATIONThe 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, as well as scored items that do not permit examiner feedback. Administration and response formats are completely nonverbal. The UNIT may be administered in three forms, depending upon time available and the purpose of the evaluation:
INTERPRETATIONUnlike the typical nonverbal intelligence test that measures only one narrow aspect of intelligence, the UNIT is a multidimensional measure of intelligence, yielding several broad-based indices of intelligence. Regardless of whether an examiner administers two, four, or six UNIT subtests, the examinee will receive an equal number of reasoning, memory, symbolic, and nonsymbolic tasks.
Memory Quotient (MQ)An index of complex memory functioning derived from short-item recall and recognition of both meaningful and abstract material, it assess memory for content, location, and sequence.
Reasoning Quotient (RQ)An index of thinking and problem-solving abilities, for both familiar and unfamiliar situations, it assesses pattern processing, understanding of relationships, and planning abilities. Symbolic Quotient (SQ)An index of an individual's ability to perform tasks involving meaningful material and which lend themselves to internal verbal mediation, it addresses the question of how well an individual can learn and solve problems when it is possible to label, organize and categorize the material under examination. Nonsymbolic Quotient (NQ)An index of an individual's ability to perform tasks involving abstract material and which are not conducive to verbal mediation, it addresses the question of how well an individual can learn and solve problems with material that is not very meaningful.
Full Scale Intelligence Quotient (FSIQ)An index of overall intellectual ability, defined as the capability to solve problems using memory and reasoning, it is predictive of an individual's ability to learn and think about new and familiar situations. COMPONENTSThe UNIT University Training Package, designed for use by University Trainers of testing and assessment, is now available. This package contains all the information an instructor needs to become familiar with the Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test (UNIT). UNIT Compuscore (not included in UNIT kits) Minimum System Requirements: Windows 95 / 98 / NT / 2000 / ME, Pentium processor, 20 MB hard drive disk space, 32 MB of free RAM.
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