Practicum in Bilingual & Culturally Responsive Assessment

Catalog description

This course is one of three in the Concentration in Bilingual & Culturally Responsive Assessment. It is taken in Spring concurrent with PSYG 6546 . This course provides supervision for the assessment assignments completed in the practicum field placement. Pragmatic concerns in administration, scoring, theoretical interpretation, psychometric and qualitative characteristics, and comparative analysis of both contemporary cognitive and academic ability test batteries with individuals who are culturally and linguistically diverse form the major components of this course. Emphasis is placed on an integrated approach to assessment, report writing, and interpreting data from cognitive and achievement batteries with current, research-based methods that represent best practices in nondiscriminatory assessment and intervention.