Contact Ron Dumont Ed. D., NCSP Associate Professor Director MA and Psy. I want a Brady Bill for testers. In the real world, we require people who want to use a gun to get a permit. We do it because we recognize that guns are considered dangerous weapons in the hands of those ill prepared to use them.
Minimum protection is what the law guarantees.
If making sure that tests meet standards for reliability and validity is a minimum standard, we must follow it. We believe that most school psychologists do follow this minimum standard practice, but we believe there exists a double standard. Evaluators outside the school setting are often not held accountable for the type of evaluation they do. Batteries of tests are given in non standardized fashion with little or no mention of it made in the report. We have watched the faces of evaluators turn red with anger when we have dared to question them about the tests, test procedure, and the results.