Psychological Assessment and Measurement

Catalog description

This course is the first required course in the sequence of assessment courses and is planned to provide a framework for the development of assessment practices. Attention will be given to issues of measurement, identifying appropriate sources of diagnostic information, reliability, validity, identifying and selecting test instruments, conducting the assessment process in an ethical and considerate manner, and interpreting norm referenced and criterion-referenced test scores. In addition, this course will introduce students to the concept of Cross Battery Assessment which offers practitioners the means to make systematic, valid, and up-to-date interpretations of intelligence batteries and to augment them with other tests in a way that is consistent with the CHC theory. (Same as SPED 572 )Prerequisite: Graduate standing.