SELECTING, USING AND INTERPRETING STANDARDISED TESTS
Principles in Educational Testing - TWO DAY COURSE (or 10 hours online)
Communicate-ed is an Authorised Assessment CPD provider for the SpLD Assessment Standards Committee (SASC). The 10 hour/2 day course is approved by SASC for Assessor Practicing Certificate core hours.In response to the recent changes to the JCQ regulations concerning Specialist Teachers, Communicate-ed has arranged a new two day course helping you to select, administer and interpret the results from standardised tests.
The course will cover key aspects for consideration when choosing standardised tests and the correct administration and interpretation of these tests, including:
* Reliability and validity
* Currency
* Age appropriate testing
* Interpretation of statistical data
* Standardisation
* Using Standardised Tests for Access Arrangements
During the 10 hour course there will be the opportunity to consider in depth the following tests: WRIT, WRAT 4, Access Reading Test, Adult Reading Test, DASH, DRA, and CToPP.
Sessions covering the following tests are also available online: WIAT 2TUK, TOWRE, SDMP, BPVS, Dyslexia Portfolio, York Assessment of Reading Comprehension. A 5 hour course is also available online for £120. Please contact us for information about how to access these sessions.
As Communicate-ed is an Authorised Assessment CPD provider for the BDA and SASC, this course (online and venue based) can provide core hours for the renewal of Assessment Practicing Certificates.
Assessments for JCQ Access Arrangements: The course alone is not sufficient to enable delegates to carry out JCQ Access Arrangements assessments. However, alongside other qualifications and experience it could enable you to meet the required criteria.
Please note that this course does not offer accreditation. You will receive a certificate of attendance, but we will not be assessing your skills or knowledge. For those requiring a more in-depth course leading to a qualification, please consider the Certificate of Competence in Educational Testing run by Real Training - see www.realtraining.co.uk/cpt3a.html
* Will attending this course enable me to carry out AA Assessments? (Click here to download document) *
The course tutors are Sarah Beard, Sheena Bell (online) and Caroline Read (online)
Sarah is a Specialist Teacher who runs the OCR Level 5 and 7 Courses in SpLD, and offers teaching and assessment of dyslexic learners of all ages, through her own company dittas SpLD Training www.dittas.org. She has extensive experience of teaching and assessing adult learners, having worked for over ten years in a College of Further and Adult Education. Sarah is also an External Verifier for the OCR SpLD/Dyslexia suite of courses, and lectures locally and nationally on the subject of dyslexia and SpLD.
Sheena is a Senior Lecturer in SEN and Inclusion at the University of Northampton. She has lectured, researched and published in books and academic journals on a range of issues relating to dyslexia. She is Course Leader and External Verifier for the OCR Courses in SpLD/Dyslexia. Sheena has taught from primary through to further and higher education, including teaching in prisons, and has worked on international projects in Spain, Finland and Ireland.
Caroline is a Specialist Teacher who has practical experience in all areas of the Access Arrangements process and trains for LAs, Universities and SEN Services. Caroline's book ‘Assessment Guidance for Access Arrangements’ was published by GL Assessment, and she contributed to the PATOSS/JCQ publication ‘Dyslexia: Assessing the need for Access Arrangements’. Her work has also been published by the TES and the RNIB, and she has worked with various publishers to develop tests. She was part of the working party which set up ‘Access Arrangements Online’ and the new Modified Papers tool, and has been involved with other QCDA training and policy projects.
Courses
Please click on the date of the course to download full course information and application form (PDF format: to be printed and posted to the mailing address shown with payment).
VENUE BASED COURSES - No further venue-based courses currently planned for this academic year. ONLINE COURSE - Now available online (£230 Early Bird Rate, £250 Standard Rate, 40/50% discount for 2nd/3rd delegate) at http://online.communicate-ed.org.uk |