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  Course Details
Understanding Statistics in Diagnostic Assessment
Course Level: Intermediate
Course Type: Distance
In-depth:
CPD Long Term:
CPD Credit Hours: Hours: 1 Minutes: 0
  Event Address

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  Contact Details
Provider: Patoss
Course Manager: Mrs Sheila Rostill
Telephone: 01386 257808
Email: srostill@patoss-dyslexia.org
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Website: www.patoss-dyslexia.org
  Event Details
Dates: 27/08/2021 - 27/08/2022
Times: N/A - N/A
No. of Delegates: Unlimited
Delegate Price: GBP 30.00
SASC Ref.: PAT-15906-27821-OL
   Audience Restriction
£30 members, £35 non#members
   Course Summary
Understanding statistics is fundamental to understanding what a diagnostic test result means and to be able to explain it clearly to the person being assessed. Quantitative data is a fundamental component of all full diagnostic reports and if a diagnosis is to be fully supported then it is essential that all data is calculated and reported with utmost accuracy.
   Course Detail

Understanding statistics is fundamental to understanding what a diagnostic test result means and to be able to explain it clearly to the person being assessed. Quantitative data is a fundamental component of all full diagnostic reports and if a diagnosis is to be fully supported then it is essential that all data is calculated and reported with utmost accuracy.

The course will cover:

  • What is a standardised test?
  • Understanding the normal distribution of a population – the normal distribution curve.
  • Ways of measuring a population distribution
    • Descriptive statistics
    • Standard deviation
    • Standard scores
    • Percentiles
    • Scaled scores
    • Descriptors – what does average mean
  • Converting between scores
  • Understanding accuracy – significance, standard error and probability ranges
  • Composite scores and indexes – when to use and when to exclude
  • Visualising data to help understanding.

The course will use examples from the SDMT, TOMAL-2 and the WRIT. It will be helpful to have the manuals for these tests available but not essential.

   CPD Themes
  • Reviewing principles of psychometrics, statistics, assessment and underlying theory
   Audience
  • Assessors
  • Support
   Pre-requisites
  • Delegates would be Assessors or hold an equilvalent level 7 qualification.
   Learning Outcomes
  • Delegates will understand the process of standardisation and the results of the standardisation process – reliability and validity
  • Delegates will understand the normal distribution of a population – the 68-95-99.7 rule
  • Delegates will understand calculating standard deviation, standard error, z-scores and probability ranges from manuals
  • Delegates will understand creating their own data visualisations