About the Author |
| Randy W. Kamphaus, PhD, is Distinguished Research Professor of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology at The University of Georgia, Athens. He is an expert in the field of child and adolescent assessment and the author of several books on the topic. He is also coauthor of the BASC-II (Behavior Assessment System for Children, Second Edition), a widely used assessment instrument.
Jonathan M Campbell, PhD is Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology at The University of Georgia, Athens. His research and clinical interests involve assessment.
Elaine Fletcher-Janzen, EdD, NCSP, teaches at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and consults to area school districts. She also serves as a trainer for American Guidance Service, a publisher of clinical assessment instruments for school psychologists. She has written or edited more than a dozen books on special education, school psychology, and child neuropsychology.
Cecil R. Reynolds, PhD, ABPN, is Professor of Educational Psychology and Professor of Neuroscience at Texas A&M University. He has written or edited more than thirty-four books, and is the author of several widely
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Summary
15 hours CE
Edited by Cecil R. Reynolds and Randy Kamphous
Now in an extensively revised and updated second edition, these essential volumes cover all aspects of child and adolescent assessment. Leading clinical scientists summarize the state of the science of assessment paradigms, instruments, and methods. With an emphasis on practical clinical considerations, chapters also delve into issues related to test development, psychometrics, and bias. Conveniently designed for reference or text use, this vast knowledge base has been synthesized into two volumes that may be purchased separately or together. Intelligence, Aptitude, and Achievement surveys assessment of intelligence, learning styles, and academic achievement; covers historical issues and psychometric methods; and addresses diversity issues, ethical concerns, and special topics in mental testing. Personality, Behavior, and Context reviews the use of projective methods, interviewing and observation, and objective methods of assessing personality and behavior; discusses the assessment of specific syndromes and symptoms; and presents tools for assessing adaptive skills and the family context.
New in the Second Edition:
Both volumes in the second edition have been substantially rewritten to include over a decade's worth of conceptual and empirical advances; numerous new and emerging applications; and the latest professional standards. Highlights of Intelligence, Aptitude, and Achievement include new chapters on applications of the KAIT and DAS, the value of multifactored and cross-battery ability assessments, assessment of memory and of writing skills, preschool intellectual assessment, and assessment of children with language impairments or traumatic brain injury. Personality, Behavior, and Context features new chapters on classroom observations, structured diagnostic interviewing, ADHD assessment, uses of the BASC and the ASEBA, assessment of childhood anxiety, and more.
Learning Objectives
- understand the history of the development of psychological and educational testing
- identify legal and ethical issues in test development
- identify specific strengths and weaknesses of different tests of cognitive development for children, adolescents and adults
- identify biological approaches to the assessment of human intelligence
- discuss methods of diagnosing learning disabilitiy and attention disorders
- identify procedures to assess creativity in children and adolescence
Table of Contents
- General Issues.
- A History of the Development of Psychological and Educational Testing, Suen and French.
- A Practical Model for Test Development, Robertson.
- Legal and Ethical Issues in the Assessment of Children, Sandoval and Irvin.
- Measurement and Design Issues in Child Assessment Research, Keith and Reynolds.
- Assessment of Intelligence and Learning Styles/Strategies.
- Clinical Interpretation of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children--Third Edition (WISC-III) Factor Scores, Weiss, Saklofske, and Prifitera.
- Assessing the Intelligence of Adolescents with the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale--Third Edition (WAIS-III), Ryan and Smith.
- Assessing the Intelligence of Adolescents with the Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test (KAIT), Kaufman, Lichtenberger, and Kaufman.
- Preschool Intellectual Assessment, Saye.
- Clinical Assessment Practice with the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC), Kamphaus.
- Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale: Fourth Edition (SB4): Evaluating the Empirical Bases for Interpretations, Youngstrom, Glutting, and Watkins.
- Assessing Diverse Populations with Nonverbal Tests of General Intelligence, Bracken and Naglieri.
- Comprehensive Assessment of Child and Adolescent Memory: The Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning, the Test of Memory and Learning, and the California Verbal Learning Test--Children's Version, Miller, Bigler, and Adams.
- Neuropsychological Perspectives on the Assessment of Children, Riccio and Wolfe.
- Biological Approaches to the Assessment of Human Intelligence, Gignac and Vernon.
- Multifactored and Cross-Battery Ability Assessments: Are They Worth the Effort?, Glutting, Watkins, and Youngstrom.
- Assessment of Academic Skills.
- Advances in Criterion-Referenced Testing Methods and Practices, Hambleton and Zenisky.
- Diagnostic Achievement Testing in Reading, Chall and Curtis.
- Assessing the Writing Abilities and Instructional Needs of Students, Bryant and Bryant.
- Clinical Assessment of Children's Academic Achievement, Hendry.
- Special Topics in Mental Testing.
- Conceptual and Technical Problems in Learning Disability Diagnosis, Reynolds.
- Visual-Motor Assessment of Children, Cummings, Hoida, Machek, and Nelson.
- Bias in Assessment of Aptitude, Reynolds and Kaiser.
- Assessment of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children, Ochoa.
- Assessment of Creativity in Children and Adolescents, Torrance and Haensly.
- Cognitive Abilities and Assessment of Children with Language Impairment, Kroese.
- Computerized Assessment, McCullough and Miller.
- Assessing the Psychological and Educational Needs of Children with Moderate and Severe Mental Retardation, Burns.
- Assessment of Children for Intervention Planning Following Traumatic Brain Injury, Rothlisberg, D'Amato, and Palencia.
Difficulty Level:Advanced
505pp
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