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Direct linkLockwood, Adam B.; Benson, Nicholas; Farmer, Ryan L.; Klatka, Kelsey – Psychology in the Schools, 2022
The last comprehensive study to examine the assessment practices promoted by school psychology programs was published 25 years ago (i.e., Wilson & Reschly, 1996). Since then, significant changes to assessment theory and practice have occurred. Data from a 2020 survey of directors of school psychology programs were collected to gain an…
Descriptors: Test Use, Evaluation Methods, School Psychology, Professional Education
Ofiesh, Nicole – Psychology in the Schools, 2006
The purpose of this article is to underscore why we need to maintain the presence of comprehensive evaluations in the identification of students with specific learning disabilities (SLDs). Response to intervention (RTI) models hold great hope for early instruction, and the reduction of the overrepresentation of students in special education who…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Intervention, Identification, Standardized Tests
Peer reviewedTolor, Alexander – Psychology in the Schools, 1978
The position paper on unbiased assessment of culturally different children provided impetus for describing fallacies: that child advocacy necessitates renunciation of standardized assessments, that diagnoses are either harmful or useless, that use of norms is detrimental, that standardized tests are devoid of value, and that multidisciplinary…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedSharpley, Christopher F.; Edgar, Elizabeth – Psychology in the Schools, 1986
Correlation between teachers' ratings of vocabulary, comprehension, mathematics, and verbal intelligence with scores from the Progressive Achievement Tests (PAT) plus the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised (PPVT-R) was assessed with 120 boys and 110 girls aged 8.6 to 10.5 years in Melbourne. Results indicated two discrete domains of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
