Excerpt from Adaptation of Educational Test for Use With Blind Pupils The Stanford Achievement Test is a well-known battery of tests covering the fundamental school subjects. The three Reading Tests, as well as the 'dictation (spelling) Test, are particularly valuable for use with blind pupils for two reasons. First, the use of visual imagery is not essential for comprehension of the test by the pupils. Second, no changes are necessary, either in the content or in the directions, which might effect the accuracy of the final results to any appreciable degree. Eventually, we hope to have the whole of the Stanford Achievement Test adapted for use with our pupils. At present, however, we have had to content ourselves with adapting only the Reading Tests. The spelling test, which is called the Dictation Test, needs no adaptation, except for changes in the dirce tions for giving made necessary by the difference in writing implements. It has been given to a large group of children in schools for the blind, however, in order that we may know how blind children compare in spelling, by age and by grade, with seeing children. The Stanford Achievement Test has two forms which are so well correlated that they can be given interchangeably This greatly increases the value of the Test. By giving one form at the beginning of the school year and the other at the end, the progress made by the pupils during the year can be judged with a high degree of accuracy. In the following pages, which are taken from the Stanford Achievement Test Manual of Directions, only such changes in the wording have been made as are necessary to adapt the material to our somewhat special needs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.