Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitude, Fifth Edition.
DTLA-5
General mental ability plus specific aptitudes across verbal/nonverbal, attention-enhanced/attention-reduced and motor-enhanced/motor-reduced composites, designed to profile learning-relevant strengths and weaknesses.
- Length and format
- 12 subtests forming a General Mental Ability composite and several domain composites. mixed performance items - verbal, figural, memory and reasoning tasks; individually administered (performance/ability test)
- Language versions
- Primarily English/US. No substantial international translation programme, although earlier DTLA editions were adapted in a few countries.
- Licence
- copyrighted - commercial
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- Reference
- Hammill, D. D., Pearson, N. A., & Wiederholt, J. L. (2018). Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitude, Fifth Edition (DTLA-5). Austin, TX: PRO-ED.
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