Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Fourth Edition (PPVT-4)

Technical Information

We are pleased to bring you the fourth edition of the renowned Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT–4). With the release of this edition, we continue the tradition of providing outstanding vocabulary assessment that has been unsurpassed for nearly a half century. Quick, easy, and reliable as ever, the PPVT–4 assists you in your key role of fostering growth in language and literacy.

What’s New?

Several significant enhancements have been made in this revision of the PPVT:

• Illustrations designed in full colour

• More up-to-date, realistic art used, offering an exceptional balance of sex and race/ethnicity

• More stimulus words included, with better representation of word types across all levels of difficulty

• Growth Scale Values (GSVs) added—a new metric for easily measuring progress over time!

• Larger easel format used (8.5 x 11 inches)

• Modernised core vocabulary

• Enhanced technology options enhanced for faster administration, scoring, and reporting

Scores and Interpretation

• Age- and grade-based standard scores

• Growth Scale Values (GSVs)

• Percentiles

• Stanines

• Normal curve equivalents (NCEs)

• Age and grade equivalents

Additional Studies

Criterion Studies: CASL, GRADE and EVT-2

Clinical Validity Studies: ADHD, Emotional/Behavioural Disturbance, Giftedness, Hearing Impairment, Hearing Impairment with Cochlear Implant, Language Delay, Language Disorder, Learning Disability, Intellectual Disability, and Speech Impairment.

Receptive and Expressive Comparison

The PPVT–4 and EVT–2 are normed on the same sample, making direct comparison of these two scales possible.

Scoring and Reporting

Enhanced scoring and reporting software offers fast, flexible, and accurate scoring & reporting, with:

• Ability to enter by item or by total raw score
• Easier data entry for unlimited numbers of students
• Multiple individual and group report options
• Embedded evidence-based interventions for individual, small group, or classroom use
• Availability for Windows® and Macintosh®

Individual Reports

• Score Summary includes the individual’s current scores, a narrative report, a diagnostic analysis of item-level performance, and a separate Suggested Interventions Report.
• Diagnostic Analysis presents item-level performance classified by part of speech.
• Progress Report tracks repeat administrations and helps you monitor an individual’s improvement over time using the new Growth Scale Value (GSV).
• Receptive-Expressive Comparison Report compares the student’s receptive and expressive vocabulary when you are administering both the EVT™-2 and PPVT™-4 tests and analyses item performance in multiple ways to enhance intervention.

• PPVT-4 Individual Score Summary Report: Samantha
• PPVT-4 Individual Score Summary Report: Noah
• PPVT-4 Individual Progress Report: Noah
• PPVT-4/EVT-2 Individual Receptive-Expressive Comparison Report: Samantha

Group Reports

• Score Summary includes a list of individuals’ scores, the group’s average scores, and narrative text.
• Diagnostic Analysis includes a Suggested Interventions Report that presents interventions tied to the group’s item and category-level performance.
• Single-Group Progress Report and Multiple-Groups Progress Report allow you to compare results over time for institutions, grades, or ages; focus on subsets of students or special groups of examinees, such as English Language Learners (ELL); and tailor reports to meet building, institution, or federal reporting requirements.

Scoring Options

Q-global® Web-based Administration, Scoring, and Reporting – Enables you to quickly assess and efficiently organise examinee information, generate scores, and produce accurate comprehensive reports all via the Web.

Manual Scoring – Allows you to administer and score assessments by hand.

Software Requirements

The PPVT-4 ASSIST software requirements are supported by the following Operating Systems: Windows 2000 (32 Bit), Windows XP (32 Bit), Windows VISTA (32 & 64 bit), Windows 7 (32 & 64 bit), Mac OS X.

For more information about the PPVT-4, go to www.helloq.com.au/ppvt-4

• PPVT4 & EVT2 - Single Group Progress (28.82 KB)
• PPVT4 & EVT2 - Group Diagnostic Analysis Interventions (50.44 KB)
• PPVT4 & EVT2 - Group Score Sum (23.25 KB)
• PPVT4 & EVT2 - Individual Diagnostic Analysis (89.50 KB)
• PPVT4 & EVT2 - Individual Progress (32.53 KB)
• PPVT4 & EVT2 - Individual Recep Exp Comparison (38.75 KB)
• PPVT4 & EVT2 - Individual Score Sum Interventions (1.04 MB)
• PPVT4 & EVT2 - Multiple Group Progress (24.40 KB)