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Details
Purpose
Assesses critical thinking based on students' language strategies using logic and experiences
Authors
Linda Bowers, MA, SLP, Rosemary Huisingh, MA, SLP, and Carolyn LoGiudice, MA, CCC-SLP
Administration Formats
Additional Details
Determine How to Help Teens With Language Impairments Related to the Process of Thinking
Use the TOPS-2: Adolescent for those who may experience difficulty making good decisions and solving problems appropriately.
- Focuses on the following cognitive processes: understanding/comprehension, analysis, interpretation, self-regulation, evaluation, explanation, inference, insight, decision making, intent/purpose, problem solving, and acknowledgment.
- Uses a natural context of problem-solving situations related to adolescent experiences: Making Inferences, Determining Solutions, Problem Solving, Interpreting Perspectives, and Transferring Insights.
- Test items presented verbally with the printed stimulus from the Reading Passages Book visible to students.
- The Examiner's Manual contains a Discussion of Performance section, which merges test results with remediation strategies.
- Item pool (N = 526) and standardization (N = 1,051) studies represent the U.S. Census for race, gender, age, and educational placement. An additional 138 individuals with language disorders were included in the validity studies.
