ERIC Number: EJ1150227
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007
Pages: 18
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Communication of Psycho-Educational Assessment Results: Remedial Teachers' Reading of Assessment Reports
Knoetze, Jan; Vermoter, Carey-Lee
South African Journal of Education, v27 n1 p1-18 2007
Psychological methods of assessing intelligence have been criticised because of their limited diagnostic-remedial nature and especially their lack of potential for initiating effective and pragmatic intervention programmes. Similarly, the means through which the results of such methods are communicated in order to make them useful and constructive can be debated. In this research we aimed to establish the value of psycho-educational assessment reports in terms of the understanding and interpretation of the reports by their recipients, specifically remedial teachers, who participated in focus group discussions and offered their opinion on the utility of psycho-educational assessment reports. The outcomes of these focus group discussions pointed to the fact that psycho-educational assessment reports were problematic in the sense that they failed to provide useful, specific, and pragmatic information for learning support programmes to be developed from. The research revealed insights which may be of interest to psychologists writing assessment reports. Suggestions for multi-disciplinary collaboration are addressed.
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Remedial Reading, Psychoeducational Methods, Focus Groups, Evaluation Utilization, Research Reports, Data Interpretation, Interviews, Ambiguity (Context), Intelligence Quotient, Intelligence Tests, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Language Usage, Time Perspective, Testing, Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: South Africa
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