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As the author of this chapter note, the Test of Nonverbal Intelligence (Brown et al. 1982, 1990, 1997, 2010) was built over 30 years ago to address the increasing diversity and complexity of a society in which the evaluation of intellectual ability and aptitude was rapidly becoming common practice. It is a highly standardized, norm-referenced measure of abstract reasoning and problem solving that requires no reading, writing, speaking, or listening. The test is culture-reduced and largely motor-free, requiring only a point, nod, or meaningful gesture as a response, and is appropriate for use with people ranging in age from 6–0 through 89–11 years and its pantomime and oral formats make TONI-4 particularly well suited for not only English speakers but also people who do not understand spoken or written English, either for cultural reasons or due to trauma, disease, or disability. As mentioned in the critical reviews, TONI-4 is suitable for use with almost all populations other than people who are blind or visually impaired. TONI-4 can be administered individually in about 10–15 min, yields index scores and percentile ranks, is available in two equivalent forms containing 60 items each, and employs a multiple response format. Finally, TONI-4 is psychometrically sound, is normed on a large, demographically representative and stratified sample of 2272 people, and has been characterized as reliable, valid, relatively free of bias with regard to gender, race, ethnicity, and other relevant variables.
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Johnsen, S.K. (2017). Test of Nonverbal Intelligence: A Language-Free Measure of Cognitive Ability. In: McCallum, R. (eds) Handbook of Nonverbal Assessment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50604-3_11
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