Description of the WRAT4

The WRAT4 is a norm-referenced test that measures the basic academic skills of word reading, sentence comprehension, spelling, and math computation. It was standardized on a representative national sample of over 3,000 individuals ranging in age from 5-94 years. 

The WRAT4 includes the following four subtests:

* Word Reading measures letter and word decoding through letter identification and word recognition.

* Sentence Comprehension measures an individual's ability to gain meaning from words and to comprehend ideas and information contained in sentences through the use of a modified cloze technique.

* Spelling measures an individual's ability to encode sounds into written form through the use of a dictated spelling format containing both letters and words.

* Math Computation measures an individual's ability to perform basic mathematics computations through counting, identifying numbers, solving simple oral problems, and calculating written mathematics problems.