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

D M Dunn & L M Dunn

We are pleased to bring you the fourth edition of the renowned Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT–4). Quick, easy, and reliable as ever, the PPVT–4 assists you in your key role of fostering growth in languagee 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 (now 228 per form), 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 stimulus material (8.5 x 11 inches)
• Modernised core vocabulary
• Enhanced technology options enhanced for faster administration, scoring and reporting

• PPVT-4 Digital Stimulus Book: flash drive with stimulus book pictures of Form A and printable Administration directions (Windows version)

Standardisation

More than 5,500 individuals were tested, with data from 4,000 of them used for the normative scores. The remaining data contributed to the validation studies. The norm sample matches the current U.S. population along parameters of sex, race/ethnicity, geographic region, socioeconomic status (SES), and clinical diagnosis or special-education placement.

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

Clinical Validity Studies: ADHD, Emotional/Behavioural Disturbance, Giftedness, Hearing Impairment, Hearing Impairment With Cochlear Implant, Language Delay, Language Disorder, Learning 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.

Read an interview with the author at www.speechpathology.com.