ELEMENT A: STUDENT ASSESSMENT: The school psychologist will demonstrate competence in using a variety of assessment methods to evaluate (a) student abilities, learning levels, and emotional adjustment and (b) key factors in the instructional environment that impact learning. MEETS THE STANDARDS DOES NOT SHOWS GROWTH IN MEET THE STANDARDS MEETING THE STANDARDS Consistently displays compe- support to tence in administering, scoring, administer, score, and and interpreting a wide range interpret a wide range of of assessment instruments and assessment instruments and methods, to include intellectual methods, and academic achievement tests, to include intellectual and behavior-rating scales, class- academic achievement room observation techniques, behavior-rating scales, classroom and other strategies to survey observation techniques, and other a student’s abilities and strategies to survey a student’s instructional interactions. abilities and instructional interactions. Frequently synthesizes information Consistently is able to synthesize Demonstrates growth in ability support to information from a variety from a variety of assessment synthesize information from a to synthesize information from methods into a coherent and of assessment methods into a a variety of assessment methods variety of assessment methods coherent and accurate portrait accurate portrait of students’ into a coherent and accurate into a coherent and accurate current school performance, of students’ current school portrait of students’ current school portrait of students’ current performance, social/emotional social/emotional adjustment, and school performance, performance, social/emotional academic strengths and adjustment, and academic adjustment, and academic strengths social/emotional strengths and adjustment, and academic strengths and and Frequently explains testing and Consistently explains testing and Needs support to Demonstrates growth in ability evaluation results in a manner that evaluation results in a manner that explain testing and evaluation to explain testing and evaluation can be understood by teachers, can be understood by teachers, results in a manner that can be results in a manner that can be school administrators, parents, and school administrators, parents, and understood by teachers, school understood by teachers, school students. students. administrators, parents, and administrators, parents, and students. students.
ELEMENT A: STUDENT ASSESSMENT: The school psychologist will demonstrate competence in using a variety of assessment methods to evaluate (a) student abilities, learning levels, and emotional adjustment and (b) key factors in the instructional environment that impact learning. MEETS THE STANDARDS SHOWS GROWTH IN MEETING THE STANDARDS DOES NOT MEET THE STANDARDS Consistently displays compe- tence in administering, scoring, and interpreting a wide range of assessment instruments and methods, to include intellectual and academic achievement tests, behavior-rating scales, class- room observation techniques, and other strategies to survey a student’s abilities and instructional interactions. support to administer, score, and interpret a wide range of assessment instruments and methods, to include intellectual and academic achievement behavior-rating scales, classroom observation techniques, and other strategies to survey a student’s abilities and instructional interactions. Consistently is able to synthesize information from a variety of assessment methods into a coherent and accurate portrait of students’ current school performance, social/emotional adjustment, and academic strengths and Frequently synthesizes information from a variety of assessment methods into a coherent and accurate portrait of students’ current school performance, social/emotional adjustment, and academic strengths and Demonstrates growth in ability to synthesize information from a variety of assessment methods into a coherent and accurate portrait of students’ current school performance, social/emotional adjustment, and academic strengths and support to synthesize information from a variety of assessment methods into a coherent and accurate portrait of students’ current school performance, social/emotional adjustment, and academic strengths and Consistently explains testing and evaluation results in a manner that can be understood by teachers, school administrators, parents, and students. Frequently explains testing and evaluation results in a manner that can be understood by teachers, school administrators, parents, and students. Demonstrates growth in ability to explain testing and evaluation results in a manner that can be understood by teachers, school administrators, parents, and students. Needs support to explain testing and evaluation results in a manner that can be understood by teachers, school administrators, parents, and students.