This post could be an entire blog, book, or career. I will try to do it justice. The cognitive/intelligence portion of the pychoeducational assessment is…
Read MorePsychoeducational, Not Psycho-educational—Part II
I started a series on psychoeducational assessment to help clarify the information in school psychologists’ highly specialized reports that are presented when students are tested…
Read MorePsychoeducational, Not Psycho-Educational
Okay, it’s really the same thing, but when you hand a report to a parent, it’s unsettling to see the word “Psycho” in isolation like…
Read MoreStar Testing
There’s this corner store by one of my schools that is called “2 Star Groceries.”* I smirk as I go by it every day, imagining…
Read MoreThe Doctor is IN.
Recently, the edublog world has been talking about how teacher accountability might be measured in much the same way doctors are measured—by professional standards, not…
Read MoreAre you Playing Around on the Job Again???
“We can be sure that all happenings, pleasant and unpleasant, in the child’s life, will have repercussion on her dolls” -Jean Piaget I have said…
Read MoreSubliminal Messages
When I was in middle school, my friends and I came up with a way to express disdain in a secret fashion. When someone was…
Read MoreKid – 1, Psychologist and Fancy Test Developers- 0
I give tests. I give IQ tests, “Cognitive Tests” (aka IQ tests that are not banned in California), Auditory Processing Tests, Visual Processing Tests, Neuropsychological…
Read MoreResponse to My Own Intervention
As I mentioned in a previous post, I was going to try to infuse a Response to Intervention (RtI) model at my middle school. I…
Read MoreI Must Have Missed that Day in Grad School When They Taught This
Once again, I feel compelled to show this hilarious clip from Summer Heights High, a mockumentary of high school students. Originally, I thought it was…
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