Woodcock-Muñoz Language Survey^® III (WMLS™ III)

Richard Woodcock - Program Author

Richard W. Woodcock, EdD, has an extensive background in education and psychology. He has held a variety of positions, including elementary school teacher, school psychologist, director of special education, university professor, and editor of a test publishing company. He earned his doctorate from the University of Oregon with a dual major in Statistics and Psycho-education, and he completed a post-doctoral fellowship in neuropsychology at Tufts University School of Medicine. He has published more than 135 professional books and articles.

Since 1957, Dr. Woodcock has held positions and appointments at Western Oregon University, the University of Northern Colorado, George Peabody College for Teachers, the University of Arizona, the University of Southern California, the University of Virginia, and Vanderbilt University. He is currently serving as a research professor in the Department of Psychology and Philosophy at Texas Woman’s University. Dr. Woodcock is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Academy of School Psychology and a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology. In 2013 the Texas Statewide Evaluation Project Conference honored Dr. Woodcock with its first Lifetime Achievement Award.

Among Dr. Woodcock’s publications are the Colorado Braille Battery, the Peabody Rebus Reading Program, the Goldman-Fristoe-Woodcock Auditory Skills Test Battery, the Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests^®–Revised, the Woodcock-Johnson^® Psycho-Educational Battery–Revised, the Batería Woodcock-Muñoz: Pruebas de habilidad cognitiva–Revisada, the Batería Woodcock- Muñoz: Pruebas de aprovechamiento–Revisada, the Woodcock Language Proficiency Battery™– Revised, the Scales of Independent Behavior–Revised™, the Woodcock-Muñoz Language Survey^®, the Woodcock Diagnostic Reading Battery, the Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Abilities, the Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Achievement, the Dean-Woodcock™ Neuropsychological Assessment System, the Bilingual Verbal Ability Tests™, the Batería III Woodcock-Muñoz^®: Pruebas de habilidad cognitiva, the Batería III Woodcock-Muñoz: Pruebas de aprovechamiento, and the Woodcock-Muñoz Language Survey–Revised.

Criselda Guajardo Alvarado, Ed.D. -

Criselda Guajardo Alvarado, Ed.D., has devoted her professional life to education and assessment. She began her career as a bilingual education teacher in an elementary school in Donna, Texas before becoming a middle school mathematics and reading teacher in Robstown, Texas. She was an adjunct professor at the University of Houston from 1994 to 1999, and again in 2016, as well as an Assistant Professor at the University of Houston–Clear Lake from 2012 to 2015. Since 1994 she has worked for various school districts and state departments as a consultant on dyslexia, special education, bilingual education, and educational assessment. From 1991 to 2015, Dr. Alvarado was the Director of Bilingual Studies at Measurement Learning Consultants, where she worked on several English and Spanish standardization projects, including the Woodcock-Muñoz Language Survey®, Batería Woodcock-Muñoz (four different versions), and Woodcock-Johnson® III (Tests of Cognitive Abilities and Tests of Achievement). She is a co-author of the Woodcock-Muñoz Language Survey–Revised and the Bilingual Verbal Ability Tests. Dr. Alvarado received her B.S. and her M.Ed. from the University of Texas–Rio Grande Valley. She received her Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a specialization in Bilingual Education at the University of Houston.

Mary L. Ruef -

Mary L. Ruef’s career in test development started in 1984 when she began working with Dr. Richard Woodcock at Measurement Learning Consultants. She worked with Dr. Woodcock for 30 years, during which time she performed testing, managed various portions of norming projects, served as an Associate Director of the company, and co-authored both the Woodcock-Muñoz Language Survey–Revised and the Bilingual Verbal Ability Tests. She also worked on the following other batteries: the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery–Revised (WJ-R®), Batería Woodcock-Muñoz-Revisada, Woodcock-Johnson III (WJ III®), Batería III Woodcock-Muñoz, and Woodcock-Johnson IV (WJ IV™). In 1998 Ms. Ruef became the Editor for Development Pnd publication of the Woodcock-Johnson International Edition in Latvia, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia. She received a B.A. from Western Oregon University and taught in the Salem, Oregon school district.

Fredrick A. Schrank -

Fredrick A. (Fred) Schrank is the senior author of the Woodcock-Johnson IV (WJ IV) Tests of Cognitive Abilities, Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Oral Language, Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Achievement, and Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Early Cognitive and Academic Development. Dr. Schrank is a licensed psychologist (Washington) and a board certified specialist in school psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). He worked in the Wisconsin public school system before earning a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Dr. Schrank then taught at Truman State University (Missouri) and the University of Puget Sound (Washington). In service to professional psychology, he has been an oral examiner for the American Board of School Psychology (ABSP) and president of the American Academy of School Psychology (AASP). Dr. Schrank is the senior author of Essentials of WJ IV Cognitive Abilities Assessment.