Communication of psycho-educational assessment results: remedial teachers' reading of assessment reports

Knoetze, Jan; Vermoter, Carey-Lee

Title: Communication of psycho-educational assessment results: remedial teachers' reading of assessment reports
Creator: Knoetze, Jan
Creator: Vermoter, Carey-Lee
Date Issued: 2007
Date: 2007
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6265
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008264
Identifier: http://www.sajournalofeducation.co.za/index.php/saje/article/view/47
Description: 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 the irrecipients, 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.
Description: The South African Journal of Education is open access and available on-line at: http://www.sajournalofeducation.co.za
Format: 18 leaves
Format: pdf
Publisher: South African Journal of Education
Language: English
Relation: Knoetze, J.J. and Vermoter, C.-L. (2007) Communication of psycho-educational assessment results : remedial teachers' reading of assessment reports. South African Journal of Education, 27 (1). pp. 1-18. ISSN 0256-0100. Available: http://www.sajournalofeducation.co.za/index.php/saje/article/view/47

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