What do you tell people when they come in for an assessment

·         What assessment you will do

·         How long it will take

·         Cost

·         the responsibilities of each party

·         Who will have access to the information

·         Who will do the assessment

·         People need to understand what they are agreeing to at the start.  If that changes over time you need to make them aware of the changes and give them a chance to decline. For example if you were not planing on doing an asessment but then decide to inlcude it you need to let then know

Asssessment is a comprehenisve method to gather information and testing may be part of that process. It involves interpreting and understanding the results from the test

Testing is the act of giving a test

Should you have a standard battery that everyone gets?

·         No !

·         You can have regular things you do in particular situations but you can’t do the same thing for everyone that walks through the door.

o   Unless you only see a particular type of kids

o   Or for research in which case you can’t charge for it

·         You can’t bill people for things they don’t need

You want assessments to be what 5 things?

Multifaceted- more than one thing

Comprehensive (as needed)-

fair

vaild (in their language, good reliablity and vailidy)

useful

realiablity for diagnostic tool

what does it mean that validity is bounded not general

·         It is only valid for what it was intended to be used for and it is not valid  for things it is not intended for

·         IQ test are good at predicting school achievement and work success, but that is. They are not good at assessing pathology

·          the norms are reprehensive of the population you want to predict to but does not have to exactly match the population

How should you write your reports?

Repors should be written so that the consumer (dr's othe psy) can read it and get professional information,  but also so that the family can also understand the report

Why assesses?

·         Technical competence

·         Competence for the population

·         understanding the kid in context of the social group they are in

·         tut the problem is  we are white women

·         you need to figure out what you need to know

·         Behaviors may not be the same across cultures and if a kid does something different (will not look you in the eye) you need ask someone who knows about that culture

·         No validly

·         They don’t work

·         Global IQ is a that is worthwhile

·         Based on the current evidence there is no evidence that it works, but that might change? (what you should say to outsiders)

what is Ipsative profile analysis and what are the problems?

·         Looking at the peeks and valleys within someone subtest

·         Compounding error, subtest are unstable to start

·         Paper by McMann looked at them and showed that they are too unstable to be valid

·         No evidence for treatment validity

IQ assessments - what do they do?

·         Abstract test the predicts how easily someone can learn

Purpose of SPED assessment

·         Who should get services

·         What services they should they receive

·         Where should they be provided (LRE)

thre Entitlement Decisions that have to be made

·         Does the student have an IDEIA defined disability?

·         Does the disability cause the child to be unable to progress effectively in GenED?

·         Does the student require specially designed instructions or related services to access GenED curriculum

·         At the beginning

·         At the end of the evaluation when the kid gets the diagnosis (this no longer required)

·         At the placement meeting

·         At re-evaluation

who makes up your IEP team?

·         Principal (someone who can commit money)

·         Gen ed

·         Sp ed

·         Someone with expertise of disability

·         Parent

Substantive requirements for doiong a special ed assessment?

·         Address all areas of student need

·         Conducted by knowledgeable persons

·         Results in an IEP that confers meaningful benefit

o   (comprehensive individualized assessment)

·         Consent

·         Validation

·         Language

·         Parental participation

·         Team decision making

·         Treatment assessment link

Child find is a way to find and identifiy children under the age of 3 who are at risk of having a developmental disability

Every state must have one

IQ test are biases because there is an over representation of AA diagnosed MR in special ed 

focused on achievement and SES rather than race

and found that IQ assessment were not biased against AA

·         Used evidence from Scotland that MMR was a SES problem not a race problem

·        Decided that it was ok to discriminate against people because they are poor

·         This was the last court case

·         After this anti IQ group stopped trying

Independent Educational Evaluation

when can parents ask for one?

can the district appeal?

can it be done by an empoyee of the state?

Does the school have to accept the IEE resutls?

·         Parents may request one any time they disagree

·         District may appeal

·         At public expense

·         Cannot be employees of the district

·         District does not have to accept the IEE results

When do schools have to pay for IEE and who do schools often use to do IEE?

o If the parents  work through the process to get an IEE than the school does have to pay for it

o If they go do it on their own and don’t go through the process, school only has to pay if it is discrepant

· Often schools have an agreement with a neighboring district to do IEE