PSY 5703 - Psychoeducational Assessment for Intervention II (5)

When Offered: Spring
As the second in a two-course sequence, this course extends students’ knowledge and skills in school-based assessment for intervention. Students will have the opportunity to learn historical and theoretical foundations of intelligence as well as characteristics of and methods of assessing various educational disabilities. Students will demonstrate competency in the administration, scoring, and interpretation of results of the most commonly used measures of cognitive abilities, perceptual-motor integration, and adaptive behaviors and learn to integrate assessment data from multiple measures into comprehensive written reports with associated recommendations for interventions. Emphasis will be placed on the integration of assessment skills and methods attained during PSY 5702, as well as the application of assessment data to address instructional problems. Practice laboratory sessions are required.
Prerequisites: PSY 5702.