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TOMAL2 - Test of Memory and Learning Kit 

TOMAL2 is a standardised assessment offering comprehensive coverage of memory.

What’s New

• Reduced administration time
• Additional analyses of cultural impact to ensure culturally fair assessment of memory
• Improved clarity of scoring and administration rules
• Now normed for children and adults, ages 5 years through 59-11
• Reformulated core subtests and core indexes
• Redesigned, convenient to use Record Booklet
• New Verbal Delayed Recall Index
• Additional interpretive tables and text

Complete TOMAL2 Kit Includes: 

• Examiner’s Manual
• Picture Book A
• Picture Book B (with easel)
• 25 Profile Summary Forms
• 25 Examiner Record Booklets
• Delayed Recall Cue Cards
• Visual Selective Reminding Test Board
• 15 chips in vinyl envelope
• All in a sturdy storage box

Supplementary Products 

• Examiner Record Booklets (Blue or Green PK 25)
• Profile Summary Forms (Blue or Green PK 25)

Subtests

The TOMAL2 includes  8 core, 6 supplemental subtests, and 2 delayed recall tasks are designed to give information on specific and general aspects of memory and are used to derive the Core Indexes and the Supplementary Indexes.

Subtests include:

• Memory for Stories (MFS)
• Facial Memory (FM)
• Word Selective Reminding (WSR)
• Visual Selective Reminding (VSR)
• Object Recall (OR)
• Abstract Visual Memory (AVM)
• Digits Forward (DF)
• Visual Sequential Memory (VSM)
• Paired Recall (PR)
• Memory for Location (MFL)
• Manual Imitation (MI)
• Letters Forward (LF)
• Digits Backward (DB) and Letters Backward (LB)
• 2 verbal delayed recall tasks and cued recall procedures.

Core Indexes

• Verbal Memory Index
• Nonverbal Memory Index
• Composite Memory Index

Supplementary Indexes

• Verbal Delayed Recall Index
• Learning Index
• Attention and Concentration Index
• Sequential Memory Index
• Free Recall Index
• Associative Recall Index

Description

Statistical Characteristics

TOMAL2 was normed on more than 1,900 children, adolescents, and adults ages 5-0 through 59-11, drawn from 31 states representing all major regions of the United States. The sample was designed to be representative of the U.S. population as a whole on gender, age, ethnicity, urban/rural residence, and geographic distribution.

Standardisation: US

Age Range: Now normed for children and adults Ages: 5-0 through 59-11

Testing Time: Core Battery 30 minutes; Core plus Supplementary 60 minutes

Administration: Individual

Author: Cecil R. Reynolds, Judith K. Voress

Published Date: 2007

Publisher: Pro-Ed

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