Intellectual and Cognitive Assessment with Lab

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This course is designed to introduce the basics of intellectual assessment and give you a theoretical and practical foundation in the most used intellectual assessment measures. Course Objectives: To understand how tests are constructed and interpreted; To understand basic psychometric theory; To gain a basic understanding of the constructs encompassed by the term intelligence and how these constructs are commonly measured; To gain the basic skills of administering, scoring, and interpreting a WAIS, RBANS, and Trail-Making Test, and to be able to generalize these skills to the administration, scoring and interpretation of other measures of cognitive abilities encountered in future settings; To have a passing knowledge of other commonly used measures of cognitive abilities.