What We Need to Know from Intelligence Tests and How Best to Obtain it: The RIAS-2-Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales-Second Edition - Jun 2024 to Jun 2025: Patoss
Overview
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Date(s)20 Jun 2024 - 20 Jun 2025
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Cost£47.00
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ProviderPatoss
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Delivery typeDistance
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Course levelIntermediate
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Course summary
This training, presented by Prof Cecil Reynolds, will provide a detailed introduction to the administration, scoring, and interpretation of the Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales-Second Edition.
The RIAS-2 provides an efficacious assessment in terms of time and costs of general intelligence, fluid intelligence, crystallized intelligence, memory, and processing speed and has recently been added to the SASC approved list of assessments.
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CPD credit hours1 hour and 30 minutes
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Course themesReviewing principles of psychometrics, statistics, assessment and underlying theory, SpLD testing methods, interpretation, report writing, feedback and test materials
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AudienceAssessors, Support, Assessment centres
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Website
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SASC CodeSASC-20240227-98
Description
Professionals spend a great deal of time conducting cognitive assessments, and often the bulk of this time is spent in the assessment (administration, scoring, and interpretation) of tests of intelligence. The expenditure of so much time in intellectual assessment appears to be predicated on the myths of profile analysis, i. e., that a careful analysis of the patterns of subtest scores on intelligence tests will reveal cogent diagnostic and intervention-related insights justifying the hours often spent in such endeavours. Through a critique of the widely publicised failure of profile analysis of IQ tests and the reasons for this failure, the lack of value of profile analysis, will be noted and the relevant information obtained from intelligence tests revealed.
The useful information available from sound intelligence tests as measures of intellect will be emphasised and the Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales approach to rapid but reliable and valid intellectual assessment presented in detail, along with a review of the RIAS-2 as a preferred model of intellectual assessment. The design of the RIAS-2 and its development are reviewed including commentary on its standardisation, reliability studies, and validity evidence. The importance of assessment of complex memory functions and processing speed in intellectual assessment is reviewed.
Learning outcomes
Delegates will be able to submit questions during the webinar which will be answered during the question and answer session at the end of the webinar.
Course prerequisites
Open to all, ideally suited for assessors and specialist teachers.