Samuel O. Ortiz

The most up-to-date resource of comprehensive information for conducting cross-battery assessments 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...

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. These include the new WISC®-V, WJ...

The most empirically grounded and practice-transforming edition of Cross-Battery Assessment to date The Fourth Edition of Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment and X-BASS delivers a comprehensive scientific update to the XBA framework and its application to SLD identification and nondiscriminatory assessment. This edition incorporates a large-scale meta-analytic database used to program X-BASS 3.0—spanning hundreds of correlation matrices, thousands of subtest-level coefficients,...