Nadeen Kaufman, DEd
Lecturer in the Child Study Center
Research & Publications
Biography
Research Summary
The development of clinical tests of intelligence, achievement, and neuropsychological functioning. Major research program concerns not only the development of these individually-administered and computerized tests, but also their clinical and psychometric interpretation, especially for the diagnosis and treatment of learning disabilities and other exceptionalities.
Extensive Research Description
With my husband and scholarly colleague, Alan
Kaufman, I have developed tests of intelligence, achievement, and
neuropsychological functioning, beginning with the Kaufman Assessment Battery
for Children (K-ABC) in 1983 and extending to the present day. We are
currently in the tryout phase of developing the KTEA-III, a revision of the
2004 test, the Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement--2nd ed. (KTEA-II), and
we are also working on a thorough revision of the 2004 KABC-II. Our most
recently published test is the 2007 K-CLASSIC, a computerized screening test of
the intelligence and attention of children ages 6-10 years; the test was
published directly for a French publisher and was adapted and published in 2010
in Germany. My research and writing have centered on the clinical
interpretation of tests to diagnose learning disabilities, intellectual
disabilities (mental retardation) and other exceptionalities. I have written many psychological case
reports that have been published in a diversity of texts, such as Intelligent Testing with the WISC-R (A.
Kaufman, 1979), Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence (A. Kaufman, 1990),
and--more recently, Essentials of WISC-IV Assessment, 2nd ed. (D. Flanagan
& A. Kaufman, 2009). I am
co-author of Clinical Evaluation of Young Children with the McCarthy
Scales (1977), Essentials of
Assessment Report Writing (2004), and essentials of KABC-II Assessment (2005). I
co-edited (with Alan Kaufman) the 2001 book Specific Learning Disabilities and Difficulties in Children and
Adolescents: Psychological Assessment and Evaluation (at the
invitation of Donald Cohen); and I co-edited (with Nancy Mather) a special 2006
issue of Psychology in the Schools that was devoted to the implementation of
IDEA for the diagnosis of specific learning disabilities, entitled, “Integration
of Cognitive Assessment and Response to Intervention.” I participated in a considerable
research endeavor, along with three co-authors, concerning the diagnosis and
treatment of specific learning disabilities. The outcome of this research project was a DVD training
program titled, “Agora: The
Marketplace of Ideas. Best Practices: Applying Response to Intervention (RTI)
and Comprehensive Assessment for the Identification of Specific Learning
Disabilities.”
1. Exploration of computer-based tests of
cognitive abilities.
2. Development of tests of academic achievement that emphasize the translation of test scores to educational intervention.
2. Development of tests of academic achievement that emphasize the translation of test scores to educational intervention.
Research Interests
Achievement; Aptitude; Child, Exceptional; Mental Processes; Psychological Theory; Psychology, Educational; Psychiatry and Psychology
Selected Publications
- Use of individually administered achievement tests as clinical tools to help children with learning disabilities.Kaufman, N. L., Kaufman, A. S., Todo, E., Kumagai, K., & Ishikuma, T. (2012). Use of individually administered achievement tests as clinical tools to help children with learning disabilities. Japanese Journal of Learning Disabilities, 21, 24-31.