KABC-II
Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children
The KABC is a children's ability test that psychologists often choose when a child is learning English, comes from another culture, or has trouble with language, because the examiner can leave out the parts that depend on knowing words and facts.
Many of its tasks are puzzles, memory games and learning new pairs of pictures and names during the test itself.
- Ages
- 3 to 18
- How it is given
- One-to-one with a psychologist
- How long
- About 25 to 70 minutes, depending on age and the version chosen
What it measures
- Simultaneous processing: seeing how parts make a whole picture
- Sequential processing: remembering things in order
- Planning: solving a puzzle that needs a strategy
- Learning: picking up new pairs and recalling them later
- Knowledge (optional): words and facts
What you can do
- If English is not your child's first language, tell the psychologist: it changes which version they give.
- Play memory games: remember the items on a tray, repeat a short list in order.
- Do picture and shape puzzles together without rushing.
Practice for the same skills
None of these is the KABC-II. Each one builds a general skill it draws on, in a short, friendly format your child can try at home.
- NNAT practiceReasoning with shapes and colors only: no words and no numbers. Kindergarten to Grade 8.Try it
- Matrices-style practicePicture puzzles: find the piece that completes the pattern. No words, no clock. Kindergarten to Grade 8.Try it
- Free brain testTwenty puzzles with words, numbers and shapes for ages 5 to 13. No account needed, and not an IQ test.Try it
Practice the skills, not the test
These tests are given in person by a trained examiner, and their questions are kept private: publishers do not sell them to families, and nobody can lawfully offer the real items. Nothing on this site is taken from them.
Drilling a child on copies of the questions would not help either. A result is only meaningful if the questions are new to your child, so a rehearsed score can place them in a program that does not fit, and a psychologist may set it aside.
Other tests
- WISC-V
- WPPSI
- Stanford-Binet 5
- KBIT-2
- RIAS-2
- WASI-II
- Woodcock-Johnson and WIAT
- Bracken (BSRA)
- SAGES-3
- Raven's
- Spatial Test Battery
- Torrance and CAP
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