Practicum experience required as well as experience in communicating results of evaluation. Administration and interpretation of the most commonly used psychoeducational assessment instruments including measures of cognitive ability, achievement, perceptual motor ability, adaptive behavior and social-emotional functionings. Emphasis will be on building clinical skill as well as on understanding legal and professional issues associated with the use of these assessment procedures. Social-Emotional Aspects of Educational Diagnosis. 5 hours. The administration, scoring and interpretation of test materials designed to diagnose social and emotional adjustment problems in school children.
Emphasis is given to the effects of social and emotional adjustment on academic achievement.
Individual Preschool Testing. Special emphasis is placed on the educational implications of test findings. 930D. Doctoral Dissertation. Research in Educational Psychology. Close supervision will be maintained by a member of the faculty.