Test Observation Form for Ages 2-18

With the Test Observation Form (TOF), examiners have unique opportunities to assess important behavioral and emotional problems when administering individual ability and achievement tests. Furthermore, the test results often have high stakes consequences for special education eligibility and for admission to particular programs.

The following syndromes were derived from factor analyses of TOFs for 3,400 children:

• Withdrawn/Depressed
• Language/Thought Problems
• Anxious
• Oppositional
• Attention Problems

The TOF enhances the value of testing in the following ways:

• The TOF capitalizes on standardized test situations & on examiners’ experience to obtain samples of behavior that can be compared across children & for the same child at initial vs. subsequent evaluations.
• The TOF helps examiners document many characteristics that might not otherwise be noted.
• The TOF efficiently documents examiners’ observations without requiring written reports.
• Based on TOFs for 3,943 nonreferred children, gender-specific norms for ages 2-5, 6-11, & 12-18 years measure degrees of deviance on multiple scales.
• The TOF enables examiners to evaluate test performance in relation to problems documented during testing.
• The TOF is scored on empirically based syndromes, a DSM-oriented Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Problems scale with Inattentive & Hyperactivity-Impulsivity subscales, Internalizing, Externalizing, & Total Problems.
• A child’s profile can be compared with profiles scored from the CBCL, C-TRF, TRF, YSR, SCICA, & DOF.
  

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