Comprehensive Educational Assessment

What is a Comprehensive Educational Assessment?

Having the potential for academic achievement and actually reaching it are two different things. A comprehensive educational assessment uses a combination of IQ testing and achievement testing to compare an individual’s predicted learning ability with their real educational outcomes. This assessment highlights educational strengths and weaknesses, while providing a contextual understanding of an individual’s full learning profile.

Our Psychologists are highly trained in the administration and scoring of comprehensive educational assessments and in providing tailored reports for children and adults.

Why get a Comprehensive Educational Assessment?

Comprehensive educational assessments are recommended for the following purposes:

To identify intellectual strengths and/or giftedness
To diagnose intellectual disabilities and specific learning disabilities
To support brain style assessments, i.e., Autism and ADHD

Who can be assessed?

We offer comprehensive educational assessments to children and adults over the age of 6.

Components of a Comprehensive Educational Assessment

A basic comprehensive educational assessment incorporates the following:

Initial consultation to gain background information and to identify the most appropriate level of assessment depth for the individual and their goals.
Cognitive assessment (we use the WISC V and the WAIS-IV)
Achievement assessment (we use the WIAT III)
Feedback session to discuss assessment findings and recommendations
Comprehensive report

If identified as important and relevant to assessment goals, additional assessment measures can be added onto the basic assessment. Some of these might include:

Free additional screening for suspected mental health conditions
Adaptive behaviour assessments