How to choose a test

Pearson is the recognized world leader in clinical assessment development and publishing. Our test offerings assess a broad range of factors and measure change in a variety of areas and symptoms including:

  • Anxiety
  • Attention Deficit Disorder
  • Cognitive Functioning
  • Depression
  • Dementia/Alzheimer’s  
  • Executive Functioning
  • Fluency (Stuttering)
  • Memory
  • Mild Cognitive Impairment

Pharma Research Services

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The list of available translations below is subject to change. Also, not all portions of a test's content may have been translated. A complete list of both will be provided upon receipt of a formal licensing request indicating desired content & its corresponding language.

BDI-II (Beck Depression Inventory | Second Edition)

The BDI–II consists of 21 items to assess the intensity of depression in clinical and normal patients. Each item is a list of four statements arranged in increasing severity about a particular symptom of depression.

Languages available for Pharma research:
English, Chinese, Coratian, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, French (Canada), French (France), German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese (Bz), Romanian, Spanish (Argentina), Spanish (Spain), Swedish

RBANS Update (Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status Update)

RBANS provides a brief, individually administered battery to measure cognitive decline or improvement across five domains:

  • Immediate Memory — List Learning and Story Memory
  • Visuospatial/Constructional — Figure Copy and Line Orientation
  • Language — Picture naming and Semantic Fluency
  • Attention — Digit Span and Coding
  • Delayed Memory — List Recall, List Recognition, Story Memory, and Figure Recal

Languages available for Pharma research:
English (US), English (UK), Danish, Italian, Norweigan, Swedish

WAIS-IV (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale | Fourth Edition)

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV) provides the most advanced adult measure of cognitive ability. Domain: verbal comprehension, perceptual reasoning, working memory, processing speed.

Languages available for Pharma research:
English (US), English (Australia), English (Canada), English (UK), Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French (Canada), French (France), German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Bz), Spanish (Argentina), Spanish (Chile), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Spain), Swedish

Vineland-3

Content: (also need list of translations avail, if applicable) Leading instrument for supporting the diagnosis of intellectual and developmental disabilities. Vineland-3 not only aids in diagnosis, but provides valuable information for developing educational and treatment plans.

  • Updated item content and norms
  • New briefer form options

Languages available for Pharma research:
English (US)

Bayley-4 (Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development - Fourth Edition)

The most comprehensive assessment tool for determining developmental delays in children. Core battery of five scales: Assessment of the Cognitive, Language, and Motor domains is accomplished by administering structured items to the child, and engaging the caregiver to support responses where appropriate. The Social-Emotional and Adaptive Behavior scales are administered via caregiver questionnaire which allows them to share their own observations of the child’s abilities.

Languages available for Pharma research:
English (US)

BAYLEY-III (Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development | Third Edition)

Comprehensive assessment of development for young children. Core battery of five scales.
  • Three scales administered with child interaction: cognitive, motor, language
  • Two scales conducted with parent questionnaires: social-emotional, adaptive behavior
Languages available for Pharma research:
English (US)

BASC-3 (Behavior Assessment System for Children | Third Edition)

A comprehensive set of rating scales and forms including the Teacher Rating Scales (TRS), Parent Rating Scales (PRS), Self-Report of Personality (SRP),Student Observation System (SOS), Structured Developmental History (SDH). Together, they help you understand the behaviors and emotions of children and adolescents.

Languages available for Pharma research:
English (US), French (Canada), Romanian

Additional tests for consideration in your clinical trial

BAI (Beck Anxiety Inventory)

Patients respond to 21 items rates on a scale from 0 to 3. Each item is descriptive of subjective, somatic, or panic-related symptoms of anxiety.

Languages available for Pharma research:
English (US), Chinese, Danish, German, French (Canada), Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese (Bz), Swedish, Spanish (Spain)

BHS (Beck Hopelessness Scale)

The BHS consists of 20 items designed to help you measure three major aspects of hopelessness: feelings about the future, loss of motivation, and expectations.

Languages available

  • English
  • Portuguese (Bz)
  • Chinese
  • Italian
  • Korean

BSS (Beck Scale of Suicide Ideation)

The scale is made up of 21 items. Five screening items reduce the length and the intrusiveness of the questionnaire for patients who are nonsuicidal.

Languages available

  • English
  • Portuguese (Bz)
  • Slovenian
  • Chinese

BOT-2 (Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency | Second Edition)

An individually administered, comprehensive measure of gross and fine motor skills.

Languages available for Pharma research:
English (US), German

Brown EF/A Scales (Brown Executive Function/Attention Scales)

As an update to the widely used Brown ADD Scales™, the Brown EF/A Scales allows you to quickly assess DSM-5 symptoms of ADHD along with less apparent impairments of executive functioning.

  • Based on Dr. Brown’s six cluster model of executive functions
  • New and updated test items that improve clarity and clinical relevance

Languages available for Pharma research:
English (US)English

Brown ADD Scales (Brown Attention-Deficit Disorder Scales)

Based on Thomas Brown’s cutting-edge model of cognitive impairment in ADD, the Brown ADD Scales explore the executive functioning aspects of cognition associated with AD/HD (ADD).

Languages available for Pharma research:
English (US)

BSI (Brief Symptom Inventory)

The efficient Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) instrument provides patient-reported data to help support clinical decision-making at intake and during the course of treatment in multiple settings.

The BSI test is brief and requires only 8-10 minutes to complete, making it well-suited for repeated administrations over time to evaluate patient progress.

Languages available

  • English

CELF-5 (Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals ) | Fifth Edition

The CELF is a comprehensive battery of tests that provides you with a streamlined, flexible approach to language assessment. It offers a robust assessment of pragmatics using observations and interactive activities.

Languages available for Pharma research:
English (US), English (Australian), English (UK), Dutch, Swedish

CVLT-III (California Verbal Learning Test) | Third Edition

The CVLT is considered to be the most sensitive measure of episodic verbal learning.

  • Assess individuals who have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI), dementia, schizophrenia, ADHD, or neurological disorders.
  • Test the degree to which a person can return to work, perform complex activities of daily living, and live independently.
  • Evaluate insufficient effort or malingering to reduce false results.

Languages available for Pharma research:
English (US)

CVLT-II (California Verbal Learning Test® | Second Edition)

Obtain the most comprehensive and detailed assessment of verbal learning and memory available for older adolescents and adults.

Languages available for Pharma research:
English (US), English (UK), Dutch, French (France), Norwegian, Polish

D-KEFS (Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System)

With nine stand-alone tests, comprehensively assess the key components of executive functions believed to be mediated primarily by the frontal lobe.

Languages available for Pharma research:
English (US), Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish

KABC-II (Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children | Second Edition)

An individually administered measure of cognitive ability for children ages 3 to 18.

Languages available

  • English
  • French (France)
  • Korean
  • Japanese
  • Spanish (Spain)
  • Italian
  • German

KBIT-2 (Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test | Second Edition)

A brief measure of cognitive ability for individuals ages 4 to 90.

Languages available

  • English
  • Spanish (Spain)

PPVT-5 (Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test | Fifth Edition)

A measure of receptive vocabulary for Standard American English

  • Qualitative Analyses: five ways to help you make hypotheses about vocabulary performance.
  • Growth Scale Values (GSVs): an objective score for measuring changes in performance over time.

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

A measure of receptive vocabulary for Standard American English.

Languages available

  • English

Raven’s 2 (Raven’s Progresive Matrices - Second Edition)

An easy-to-use non-verbal assessment of ability, RAVEN’S2 measures high-level observation skills, ability to reason, and intellectual capacity, even in people with communication disorders or English Language Learners (ELL).

Raven's SPM (Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices)

Raven's SPM is a test of observation skills and clear-thinking ability. It offers insight about someone's capacity to observe, solve problems, and learn. The test has a total of 60 items presented in 5 sets (A–E), with 12 items per set.

Languages available

  • English
  • Slovenian
  • Chinese
  • various
  • French (France)
  • Spanish (Argentina)
  • Italian
  • Portuguese (Pt)
  • Croatian
  • Japanese
  • Dutch
  • Norwegian
  • Swedish
  • German
  • English (UK)
  • English (Aus)
  • Spanish (Spain)
  • English (adapted)
  • Polish
  • Hebrew
  • Finnish
  • Romanian

SCL-90-R (Symptom Checklist-90-Revised)

The Symptom Checklist-90-R (SCL-90-R) instrument helps evaluate a broad range of psychological problems and symptoms of psychopathology. The instrument is also useful in measuring patient progress or treatment outcomes.

Languages available

  • English
  • German
  • Italian
  • Dutch
  • Danish
  • Norwegian
  • Spanish (Spain)

WASI®-II (Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence® | Second Edition)

The WASI–II, a revision of the WASI, provides a brief, reliable measure of cognitive ability for use in clinical, educational, and research settings.

Languages available

  • English
  • Norwegian
  • Lithuanian

WISC®-V (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children® | Fifth Edition)

The WISC-V (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children) is a cognitive ability assessment of verbal comprehension, perceptual reasoning, working memory, and processing speed.

Languages available

  • Arabic
  • Chinese
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • English (Aus)
  • English (Canada)
  • English (UK)
  • Finnish
  • French (Canada)
  • French (France)
  • German
  • Greek
  • Hebrew
  • Hungarian
  • Icelandic
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Lithuanian
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese (Bz)
  • Portuguese (Pt)
  • Romanian
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Spanish (Argentina)
  • Spanish (Chile)
  • Spanish (Mexico)
  • Spanish (Spain)
  • Swedish

WMS-IV (Wechsler Memory Scale | Fourth Edition)

Time tested tool for measuring many aspects of memory in adults.

Languages available

  • Chinese
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • English (Aus)
  • English (Canada)
  • English (UK)
  • Finnish
  • French (France)
  • German
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Norwegian
  • Spanish (Spain)
  • Swedish

WNV (Wechsler Nonverbal Scale of Ability)

Nonverbal measure of ability for culturally and linguistically diverse groups.

Languages available

  • English
  • French (France)
  • Dutch
  • Danish
  • Norwegian
  • Swedish
  • French (Canada)
  • Spanish (Spain)

Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence™ | Fourth Edition (WPPSI™-IV)

The leading measure of cognitive ability for preschoolers and young children, the WPPSI-IV, places a strong emphasis on child friendly features and helps assess five domains of intelligence that affect cognitive behavior.

Languages available

  • Chinese
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • English (Aus)
  • English (UK)
  • Finnish
  • French (France)
  • German
  • Hebrew
  • Icelandic
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Lithuanian
  • Norwegian
  • Portuguese (Pt)
  • Slovenian
  • Spanish (Argentina)
  • Spanish (Mexico)
  • Spanish (Spain)
  • Swedish