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Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning, Third Edition (WRAML-3)
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Classification
Supplemental: Mitochondrial Disease (Mito)
 
Short Description of Instrument
WRAML-3 assesses multiple facets of memory including immediate recall, delayed recall, and recognition and differentiates between visual, verbal, or more global memory deficits.
 
Age range: 5 years to 90 years
 
Immediate Recall Subtests:
 
  • Administration time: 30-35 minutes

  • Six subtests: two visual memory, two verbal memory, two attention/concentration

 
Delayed Recall and Recognition Subtests coincide with the two visual and two verbal memory immediate recall subtests.
Supplementary Subtests:
 
  • Visual Working Memory

  • Verbal Working Memory

 
Additional Subtest - Sentence Memory
Scoring and Psychometric Properties
Scoring:
  • Hand-scoring and digital scoring options

  • Index Scores - standard scores (Mean=100, SD=15)

  • Subtest Scores - scaled scores (Mean=10, SD=3)

 
Psychometric Properties:
  • 2017 normative data sample is a national sample that is representative of the US English-speaking population ages 5-90 years.

  • Reliability: WRAML-3 is a reliable tool to assess memory

      • Overall average index reliability range from 0.81 to 0.93

      • Overall average subtest reliability range from 0.71 to 0.92

      • Good evidence for internal consistency

      • Test-retest scores are highly correlated, reflecting an expected practice effect over a period of 4-5 weeks.

      • Strong interrater reliability (>.90)

  • Validity:

      • Strong content, construct, and concurrent validity studies

      • Good clinical validity in preliminary studies with clinical populations
Rationale/Justification
Strengths:
  • Strong psychometric support

  • Well-normed

  • Broad applicability

  • Flexible administration options

  • Screener format available - 4 subtests, 25 min.

  • Brief format available - 2 subtests (design, story), 15 min.

  • Performance validity indicator built-in (0=acceptable effort, 1=indeterminate effort, 2=questionable effort)

 
Weaknesses:
  • WRAML-3 is not meant to be an exhaustive assessment of memory abilities, it is a useful sampling of important and functionally relevant formal memory tasks. This point is reflected in the manual

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References
Key Reference:
Adams W, Sheslow D. Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning. 3rd edition. Pearson; 2021.
 
Document last updated March 2024