ASEBA - TOF Ages 2-18 Module

Test Observation Form for Ages 2-18 (TOF)

Now... empirically based and DSM-oriented assessment of important behavioural and emotional problems during testing.

When administering individual ability and achievement tests, examiners have unique opportunities to assess important behavioural and emotional problems. Ability and achievement tests pose significant challenges for many children. Furthermore, the test results often have high stakes consequences for special education elgibility and for admission to particular programs.

The TOF includes 125 items for assessing characteristics observed during individual ability and achievement tests. Each item is scored on a 4-step scale. The TOF Manual provides details of the development of the TOF and its scales, its relations to other instruments, and guidelines for practical applications.

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

• Capitalizes on standardized test situations and on examiners' experience to obtain samples of behaviour that can be compared across children and for the same child at initial vs. subsequent evaluations.
  
• Helps examiners document many characteristics that might not otherwise be noted.
  
• 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, and 12-18 years measure degrees of deviance on multiple scales.
  
• Enables examiners to evaluate test performance in relation to problems documented during testing.
  
• Is scored on empirically based syndromes, DSM-oriented Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Problems scales and Inattentive and Hyperactivity-Impulsivity subscales, Internalizing, Externalizing, and Total Problems.
  
• A child's profile can be compared with profiles scored from the CBCLK, C-TRF, TRF, YSR, SCICA, and DOF.
  
• Co-normed with the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition.

The following syndromes were derived from factor analyses of TOFs for 3,400 children: Withdrawn/Depressed, Language/Thought Problems, Anxious, Oppositional, Attention Problems.

DSM-Oriented Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Problems scales has normed subscales for Inattention and Hyperactivity-Impulsivity.

COMPONENTS

All Forms and Profiles come in packages of 50.

Prices are in effect January 2, 2007.