Performance on figure copying tasks is empirically linked to the school readiness, learning, cognition, and neuropsychological functioning. These nonverbal tasks are frequently used to evaluate children from diverse backgrounds to minimize bias due to factors such as language, ethnicity, culture, or socioeconomic status on test performance. The…

Although collegiate athletes underutilize mental health programming, investigators have rarely examined factors that may influence their participation in such programs. The current study examined how structured interviews and demographic factors influence collegiate athletes to use psychological programming. Two-hundred and eighty-nine collegiate…

School psychologists spend a great deal of time translating assessment results into a psychoeducational report. The importance of creating reports that are both useful and understandable to the readers of the report while also being efficient for the school psychologist cannot be overstated. This study examines parent and teacher perceptions…

School psychologists are increasingly engaged in service provisions for students eligible for special education services under the eligibility category of autism, including conducting school-based assessments and evaluations. Evaluations occur for a variety of reasons such as special education eligibility decision-making, treatment and…

Universal screening is designed to be an efficient method for identifying preschool students with mental health problems, but prior to use, screening systems must be evaluated to determine their appropriateness within a specific setting. In this article, an evidence-based validity framework is applied to four screening systems for identifying…

The intercorrelation matrix of the ITPA subtests drawn from a population of disadvantaged children as presented by Cicirelli, et al. was analyzed by the Guttman-Lingoes SSA-I Program. The results supported two dimensions in the theoretical model suggested by the ITPA developers, the communication channel and the process level. (Author)

Eighty practitioners with varying levels of experience in the administration of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC)) completed a K-ABC Abilities Matrix to indicate their perceptions of the specific abilities assessed by each of the 10 K-ABC Mental Processing subtests. In only one-half of the judgments did the majority of…

The implication of the study suggests that a school psychologist would be well advised to arrange the testing session well in advance of the actual test administration for young children, particularly if an assessment of intellectual capacity is planned. (Author)

The present study was aimed at developing a method for the transformation of Bender performance into scaled score equivalents and at testing the validity of such scaled score equivalents. The use of scaled scores permits a more direct comparison between Bender performance and performance on measures of intellectual ability. (Author)

The Canter-BIP (Background Interfence Procedure) represents an instrument free of many effects found to add to error variance in the application of other instruments. It is essentially free of sex, intelligence level, emotional status and maturational effects, and, at least for young children, is essentially free of ethnic group effects. (Author)

Comments on an article in a previous issue of this journal (v9 n3 1972). (CJ)

University instructors should provide more careful checks and feedback to students who are learning to do intelligence testing. It also is important for supervisors in service facilities to monitor tests that provide bases for crucial decisions about children. Intelligence test scores relate to many other variables. Improperly trained examiners…

The analyses of data obtained from bain damaged and normal children of 9 to 11 and 12 to 15 years indicate that the IHCT is a better discriminator between brain damaged and normal Ss in the older age group. A shortened version of the IHCT produced for this study showed the same results. (JC)

The WISC-R, PIAT, and DAM were examined to ascertain relationships among the three instruments. Correlations indicate that information yielded by the PIAT may be obtained through WISC-R results, while the DAM may be tapping other abilities not adequately assessed by either of the other two measures. (Author)