The BRIGANCE: Comprehensive Inventory of Basic Skills II (CIBS-II) Standardisation and Validation Manual offers professionals administering the BRIGANCE CIBS-II inventory a complete insight into the research and science behind the new and updated version of this unique and wide-ranging tool.

Newly updated, the CIBS-II Standardised features reading, writing and maths standardised assessments in one convenient inventory. It provides educators, professionals and parents with documentation to support referrals; a way to produce year-level equivalents, percentiles and quotients; and a consistent way to monitor growth and report progress.

CIBS-II standardisation and validation is representative of the U.S. population. The norm-referenced assessments in the CIBS II Standardised have high internal consistency, with an average reliability of .99 for Reading and .95 for Maths.

The CIBS-II Standardisation and Validation Manual provides information on: general and specific administration procedures for the CIBS-II Standardised;interpreting the CIBS-II Standardised; using the CIBS-II in teaching and monitoring progress; the standardisation of the CIBS-II; as well as test score validity and further information on test validation.