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The cognitive and neuropsychological assessment built for the decision
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Precise, peer-trusted instruments for evaluation across the lifespan, administered digitally or on paper for your team's workflow.
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Accurate assessments for any setting
Your results hold up wherever your clinical judgment lands.
You want a profile that not only holds up in an IEP meeting, forensic report, or peer-reviewed paper, but ensures accurate assessment for the clients in your care. We bring the cognitive, ability, and neuropsychological tools you need together in one place—digital, paper, or both—so you can focus on delivering precise, defensible assessment.
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Defensible by design
When you refer to WAIS®-5, WISC®-V, or another Pearson tool, you’re choosing a measure your peers know — one whose scientific rigor, validity, and reliability hold up where your decision lands. As the #1 clinical assessment publisher in North America, we’ve built our portfolio around what defensibility requires for you.
The right assessment for the question you have
From age 2:6 through 90:11, match the question to the right tool — preschool ability, school-age cognition, adult intelligence, memory, executive function, or neuropsychological assessment. The right instrument turns a referral question into a clinical interpretation you can count on.
Administer the way your practice runs
Q-interactive is a 1:1 iPad®-based testing system that helps administer, score, and report several clinical assessments. Q-global® allows clinicians to quickly and efficiently administer assessments, generate scores and produce reports. Paper administration and scoring are also available, so you can pick the format that works for you, not the other way around.
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Cognitive, ability and neuropsychological assessments that meet your clients’ needs
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The Wechsler assessments are the foundation of our portfolio: WAIS®-5 for adult intelligence, WISC®-V for school-age intellectual ability, and WPPSI®-IV for pre-school and early childhood. Specialized assessments cover memory (WMS®-5), pediatric neuropsychology (NEPSY®-II), executive function (D-KEFS™ and D-KEFS™ Advanced), and ability (KABC™-II and KABC™-II NU), so you can choose the tool that will best address the evaluation at hand.
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Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children®, Fifth edition
Childhood cognitive ability (ages 6:0 to 16:11)
WISC®-V is the cognitive ability assessment tool that gives school psychologists, clinical psychologists, and neuropsychologists the flexibility and interpretive power to build a comprehensive picture of a child’s cognitive ability.
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Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale®, Fifth edition
Adult cognitive ability (ages 16:11 to 90:11)
WAIS®-5 is the most advanced measure of adult cognitive ability. It features updated norms, expanded clinical utility, and shorter administration time.
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Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence®, Fourth edition
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence®, Fourth edition
WPPSI®-IV is the foundational tool for early identification of cognitive strengths and concerns in young children.
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Wechsler Memory Scale®, Fifth edition
Memory assessment across adulthood (ages 16 to 90)
WMS®-5 is the most advanced psychometric measure of memory across the adult lifespan.
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Developmental Neuropsychological Assessment®, Second edition
Pediatric neuropsychological battery (ages 3 to 16)
NEPSY®-II is a widely used developmental neuropsychological battery for children and adolescents. It covers attention, executive function, language, memory, sensorimotor, social perception, and visuospatial processing.
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Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System™, Advanced
Executive function across the lifespan (ages 8 to 89)
D-KEFS™ Advanced evaluates higher-level cognitive functions.
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Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children™, Second edition (and Normative Update)
Culturally fair cognitive assessment (ages 3 to 18)
KABC-II and KABC-II NU are culturally fair, individually administered cognitive ability test for all children.
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Compare cognitive and neuropsychological assessments
Each instrument stands alone or pairs with another from our portfolio when a clinical question crosses domains.
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- Instrument or platform
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- What it measures and how it helps
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- WISC-V
- School psychologists, pediatric clinical psychologists, clinical psychologists evaluating ages 6 to 16
- The cognitive ability profile your individualized education program (IEP) team, school district, or pediatric clinical team can act on. Most widely used measure of childhood intelligence.
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- WAIS-5
- Neuropsychologists, clinical psychologists, school psychologists evaluating ages 16 to 90
- Adult cognitive ability with the newest Wechsler normative sample. Use for differential diagnosis, cognitive change over time, brain-injury follow-up, capacity questions.
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- WPPSI-IV
- Early childhood specialists, school psychologists, clinical psychologists evaluating ages 2:6 to 7:7
- Cognitive ability profile for the youngest evaluees: kindergarten readiness, early gifted identification, preschool referral decisions.
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- WMS-5
- Neuropsychologists, clinical psychologists, school psychologists evaluating memory in adults
- Comprehensive memory battery covering immediate, delayed, visual, and auditory memory. Useful for dementia workups, traumatic brain injury (TBI) follow-up, and treatment monitoring.
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- NEPSY-II
- Pediatric neuropsychologists evaluating ages 3 to 16
- Full developmental neuropsychological battery across attention, executive function, language, memory, sensorimotor, social perception, and visuospatial processing.
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- D-KEFS / D-KEFS Advanced
- Clinicians evaluating executive function across ages 8 to 89
- Targeted executive function measurement: flexibility, inhibition, problem solving, planning, and abstract reasoning. D-KEFS Advanced is forthcoming.
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- KABC-II / KABC-II NU
- Clinicians evaluating cognitive processing in children ages 3 to 18
- Dual-model (Luria and Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC)) cognitive assessment with reduced verbal demand. Particularly useful when language background or hearing status would complicate interpretation. KABC-II NU refreshes the normative comparison group.
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- Q-interactive
- Clinicians who administer 1:1 in a private practice or school
- iPad-based digital administration of Pearson assessments. Saves approximately 30 minutes per evaluation; data flows to Q-global for scoring.
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- Q-global
- Clinicians, district administrators, private practices, medical operations, supply
- Web-based scoring, reporting, and longitudinal data management for the full Pearson clinical assessment portfolio. Accepts data from digital and paper administrations.
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- Paper kits
- Clinicians and settings that prefer traditional administration
- Same item content and scoring rules as the digital editions. Hand-score on protocol or key into Q-global for automated scoring.
Answers to common questions
Not sure where to start? See the questions we hear most from school psychologists, neuropsychologists, and clinical psychologists evaluating a new edition or platform. If yours isn’t here, talk to a Pearson assessment consultant.
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Which Wechsler edition is current?
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WAIS®-5 is the current adult edition. WISC-V is the current school-age edition. WPPSI-IV is the current early-childhood edition. WMS-5 is the current adult memory battery. Talk to a Pearson assessment consultant about availability in your region and edition-transition timing for your practice. If you’re evaluating an upgrade from an earlier edition, our team can walk you through the normative updates, the test structure changes, and the recommended training path.
How robust is the normative data?
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Each Pearson cognitive and neuropsychological instrument is built on a US-representative normative sample, with subgroup analyses and clinical validation studies documented in the technical manual. The Wechsler family — taken together — has a research base no peer instrument matches. KABC-II NU adds a contemporary normative update that refreshes the comparison group while preserving the dual-model (Luria and Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC)) structure.
How do digital and paper administration compare?
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Q-interactive runs Pearson assessments on a paired iPad setup. Clinicians who switch from paper save roughly 30 minutes per evaluation, and digital administration runs roughly 9x cheaper than paper kits for some assessments. The data flows directly to Q-global for scoring. Paper kits remain available for the full portfolio with the same item content and scoring rules — hand-score on the protocol or key responses into Q-global for automated scoring. The psychometric properties are equivalent across formats, so you can switch without recalibrating your interpretation.
How do clinicians get trained on a new edition?
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Pearson offers continuing-education-eligible training for every clinical assessment edition, including webinars, on-demand courses, and live workshops. Most editions also have continuing education (CE) units available through major professional organization partnerships, and your training investment is often recouped in the time you save in the first year of digital administration.
Can I administer Pearson assessments remotely?
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Q-interactive supports certain telehealth administration scenarios with appropriate clinical judgment about test validity and patient suitability. Talk to your Pearson assessment consultant about which subtests have published telehealth equivalence data and which require in-person administration to preserve psychometric integrity. Paper administration remains in-person only.
How does this fit a school district's assessment cycle?
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School-age instruments (WISC-V, WPPSI-IV, KABC-II, KABC-II NU, NEPSY-II) integrate with district reporting through Q-global, with role-based access for school psychologists, district psychologists, and special education administrators. Your district plan can include kit purchases (digital or paper), platform licenses, and training as a single procurement.
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Pick the path that matches where you are in your evaluation.
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Explore the full portfolio
Browse the assessment catalog
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Talk to a Pearson assessment consultant
Tell us the clinical question. We’ll match you to a specialist who knows the right instrument, edition, and administration format for your practice setting.
Talk to a Pearson assessment consultant
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Enroll in training
Browse CE-eligible training across the cognitive and neuropsychological portfolio: webinars, on-demand courses, and live workshops.
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Plan a district adoption
Special education administrators and district school psychologists: scope kits (digital or paper), platform licenses, and training as one procurement plan. We’ll route you to our Assessment Consultant team.
Get district plans
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