TEST OF MEMORY AND LEARNING
The TOMAL-2 is a memory battery used for evaluating general and specific memory function for children, adolescents, and adults ages 5 years through 59 years 11 months. The standard battery for the TOMAL-2 consists of 8 core subtests, 6 supplementary subtests, and 2 delayed recall tasks.
TOMAL-2 subtests include Memory for Stories, Facial Memory, Word Selective Reminding, Visual Selective Reminding, Object Recall, Abstract Visual Memory, Digits Forward, Visual Sequential Memory, Paired Recall, Memory for Location, Manual Imitation, Letters Forward, Digits Backward, and Letters Backward, plus 2 verbal delayed recall tasks and cued recall procedures. TOMAL-2 core indexes consist of the Verbal Memory Index, Nonverbal Memory Index, and Composite Memory Index. TOMAL-2 supplementary indexes are composed of the Verbal Delayed Recall Index, Learning Index, Attention and Concentration Index, Sequential Memory Index, Free Recall Index, and the Associative Recall Index.
New in the TOMAL-2:
  • Reduced administration time.
  • Additional analyses to ensure a culturally fair assessment of memory.
  • Improved scoring and administration.
  • Expanded norms--now normed for children, adolescents, and adults, ages 5 years through 59 years 11 months.
  • Reformulated core subtests and core indexes.
  • Redesigned, convenient to use Record Booklet.
  • New Verbal Delayed Recall Index.
  • Additional interpretive tables and text.
Reliability
The TOMAL-2 scores include standardized or scaled scores and percentiles. Subtest scaled scores appear in a familiar metric with a mean of 10 and a standard deviation of 3. Composite scores and indexes also are scaled to a familiar metric for ease of use and comparability with other tests (M = 100; SD = 15). Reliability estimates are uniformly high, with all composite and some subtest reliability values in the .90s, with the balance exceeding .85. Test-retest reliability coefficients are all greater than .70 for the subtests, with most greater than .80. For the composite indexes all but one value exceeds .80.
Validity
The TOMAL-2 was normed on more than 1,900 children, adolescents, and adults ages 5 years through 59 years 11 months, drawn from 31 states representing all major regions of the United States. The sample was designed to be representative of the U.S. population as a whole on gender, age, ethnicity, urban/rural residence, and geographic distribution. The TOMAL-2 also was evaluated at the item and subtest levels for both gender and ethnic bias. The results of these studies provide strong evidence for a lack of bias and favor consistency across gender and across U.S.-born ethnic populations.
Note: If you need original TOMAL components, please contact Pro-Ed directly at 1.800.897.3202.