Educational Psychology - Cognitive Assessment

Catalog description

This course includes supervised experience in the administration, scoring, and interpretation of the major individually administered cognitive assessment batteries for children and adolescents. This course also covers theoretical models of human cognitive abilities, basic psychometrics and statistics, test bias, ethical and legal issues in the use of cognitive assessments, research topics in human cognitive abilities, and best practices for use of cognitive assessments with diverse learners and in psychological evaluations. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.