INTELLECTUAL TESTING PRACTICUM
Psyc 7683, AY 2014 – 2015
Professor: Emily D. Richardson, Ph.D.
Office: Muenzinger D 232A
Voice/Email: (73)5-1130 erichard@colorado.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Lecture: Mon 9:00 – 11:30
Muenzinger D 418
[NOTE: This is a year-long practicum. We will meet at this time throughout the
year. Please arrange your schedule accordingly. Lab will only meet in the Fall]
TA: Rachel Thayer
Office: D218B
Readings: Required Text, Sattler & Ryan (2009). Assessment with the WAIS-IV. San
Diego: J.M. Sattler Publisher.
Other readings can be downloaded from course wiki at:
http://psych.colorado.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=courses:richardson:7683:home
Username: 7683richardson
Password: sattler
Practicum Objective: This practicum is restricted to clinical psychology graduate students in
their second and advanced years of training. It will include an overview of adult cognitive
assessment with intellectual and neuropsychological tests, followed by training on the Wechsler
scale, achievement and NP tests with undergraduate volunteers and BBC clinic cases. The format
of the course will include didactics as well as practical hands-on training and supervision in the
administration and interpretation of tests. This is a 4 credit hour practicum when taken with lab in
the first semester, a 3 credit hour practicum in the second semester, and a variable credit
practicum (1-2 hr) when taken for additional practicum experience in subsequent years. By the
end of this academic year you should be able to administer and interpret cognitive tests with a
minimum level of competency. Competency is assessed through checklists of performances,
including Sattler’s WAIS-IV item-by-item checklist.
Practicum Requirements and Evaluation:
1. Supervised administration of the WAIS-IV to undergraduate volunteers until a minimum level
of technical competency is achieved (1 to 2 administrations), and administration of NP tests (e.g.,
CVLT-II, WCST, WMS-IV) and achievement tests (e.g., WJ-IV select subtests). These
administrations will be conducted on student volunteers from the department experiment pool,
and will be used to provide you experience with the technical aspects of administration as well as
detailed feedback. Technical competency must be achieved prior to administration on clinic
cases, and must be completed in the fall semester according to the lab syllabus.
2. Assessment of understanding and application of ethical guidelines governing test selection,
administration, scoring and interpretation.
3. Supervised administrations of several tests (WAIS-IV, NP tests, Vineland, WJ-IV) conducted
in the context of evaluations with BBC clients, and completion of integrative interpretative
reports. Each report must include relevant clinical observations and interpretation of test data.
These administrations will occur upon achieving technical mastery with tests in #1 above, and
will continue through the Spring semester and summer. Requirements for client interview, test
administration, and report writing include meeting competency requirements based on APA
approved competency ratings.
4. NOTE: When this practicum is taken for variable credit (without lab) in subsequent years, the
student and practicum instructor will set requirements for clinical evaluations based on the
number of credit hours.
5. Grading: A separate grade is given for the lab and for the practicum. The lab grade will be
based on timely completion of the requirements, active participation in the lab, technical mastery
of the test (administration and scoring), and responsiveness to feedback. The practicum grade will
be issued upon completion of the requirements at the end of each semester. Grades will be based
on timely completion of the requirements (including turnaround time for reports), technical
mastery of the test battery, quality of the intake interviews, responsiveness to feedback,
assignment completions, ethics quiz and exam scores, class attendance and participation.
Practicum Readings
I. History of Assessment, Concept of Intelligence, Cultural Issues, Bias
II. Basic Concepts in Norm-referenced Testing
Sattler, Ch. 4
III. Practical Administration of Wechsler Batteries
A. Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale: Description and Administration
– 3 TEXTBOOK
-IV manual
IV. Interpretation, Report Writing, and Communication of Findings
V. Ethics and Responsible Test Use
– cultural issues in testing.
and Psychological Testing
ng on the Internet, New Problems, Old Issues:
The Report of the Task Force on Psychological Testing on the Internet
VI. Neuropsychological Testing
-2
– Executive Dysfunction
a (2003a). memory chapter
– Memory and H.M.
– Aphasias
VII. Achievement & Functional Testing
er, Ch. 17
References
AERA, APA, & NCME (1999). Standards for educational and psychological testing. Washington,
D.C.:
Author.
APA (2000). Report of the task force on test user qualifications.
APA (2002, 2010). Ethical Principles of Psychologist and Code of Conduct. Retrieved August 28,
2012
from http://www.apa.org/ethics/code/index.aspx.
APA (2000). Psychological Testing on the Internet, New Problems, Old Issues: The Report of the
Task Force on Psychological Testing on the Internet.
Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education (Revised). (2005). Educational Measurement: Issues
and
Practice, 24, 23-26.
Cohen, R.J. & Swerdlik, M. (2005). Intelligence and its measurement. Chapter 8. Psychological
Testing
and Assessment, 5th Edition, (pp. 232-263). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Cummings, J.L., & Mega, M.S. (2003a). Memory disorders (Ch. 7). Neuropsychiatry and
Behavioral
Neuroscience, (pp. 97-113). New York: Oxford.
Cummings, J.L., & Mega, M.S. (2003b). Disorders of speech and language (Ch. 6).
Neuropsychiatry and
Behavioral Neuroscience, (pp. 70-96). New York: Oxford.
Cummings, J.L., & Mega, M.S. (2003c). Dementia (Ch. 10), Delirium (Ch. 11). Neuropsychiatry
and
Behavioral Neuroscience. New York: Oxford.
Lezak, M.D., Howieson, D.B., Bigler, E.D., & Tranel, D. (2012). Chapters 1-2.
Neuropsychological
Assessment. New York: Oxford.
Malloy, P.F., & Richardson, E.D. (2001). Assessment of frontal lobe functions. In S. Salloway,
P.F.
Malloy, & J.D. Duffy (Eds.), The frontal lobes and neuropsychiatric illness (pp. 125-137).
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Loehlin,
J.C., Perloff, R., Sternberg, R.J., Urbina, S. (1996). Intelligence: Knowns and unknowns.
American Psychologist, 51, 77-101.
Oakland, T., Mpofu, E., Glasgow, K., & Jumel, B. (2003). Diagnosis and administrative
interventions for
students with mental retardation in Australia, France, United States, Zimbabwe 98 years after
Binet’s first intelligence test. International Journal of Testing, 3, 59-75.
Ogden JA. (2005). Marooned in the moment: H.M., a case of global amnesia. In Fractured minds:
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case-study approach to clinical neuropsychology, 2nd edition. (pp. 46-63). New York: Oxford.
Ogden, J.A. (2005). The breakdown of language: Case studies of aphasia. In Fractured minds: A
casestudy
approach to clinical neuropsychology, 2nd edition. (pp. 83-98). New York: Oxford.
Ogden, J.A. (2005). The impaired executive: A case of frontal-lobe dysfunction. In Fractured
minds: A
case-study approach to clinical neuropsychology, 2nd edition. (pp. 158-170). New York: Oxford.
Pope, K.S. (1992). Responsibilities in providing psychological test feedback to clients.
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Sattler, J.M. (2008). Assessment of Children: Cognitive Foundations. San Diego: J.M. Sattler
Publisher.
Sattler, J.M. & Ryan, J.J. (2009). Assessment with the WAIS-IV. San Diego: J.M. Sattler
Publisher.
Sternberg (2000). The concept of intelligence. In R.J. Sternberg (Ed.), Handbook of Intelligence
(pp. 315). New York: Cambridge University Press.
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