Culturally competent school assessment: Performance measures of personality

Dana, Richard H.

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“…In fact, the Bender Gestalt Test and Human Figure Drawing (HFD) tests were found to be the first choices of school psychologists (Wilson and Reschly, 1996) and both of these tests were among the six standardized instruments included as part of locally developed batteries for kindergarten screening (Costenbader et al, 2000). Most recent surveys indicate that the popularity of Human Figure Drawings and Bender Gestalt in personality and cognitive assessment by school psychologists has not decreased (Dana, 2007). Hence, it appears that these tests are still frequently used for the purposes of screening school readiness and thus merit further examination in different populations.…”

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Relationship of Bender Gestalt Developmental Scores and Human Drawing Developmental Scores in a Sample of Turkish Preschool Children

Özer

2009

School Psychology International

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The Bender Gestalt test and Human Drawings are frequently utilized tests in assessing school readiness in children. This study was a pilot attempt to evaluate these two tests in a Turkish sample as they relate to first grade behaviour as measured by teacher ratings. One hundred and five children were evaluated at the end of kindergarten using the Bender Gestalt test and Draw A Person Test. The Koppitz (1968Koppitz ( , 1975 system was utilized in the scoring of both tests. The children were followed-up and teacher ratings on three academic dimensions and three behavioural dimensions were obtained at the end of the first grade. Significant correlations were obtained between the Bender Gestalt and Human Drawings of the children and teacher ratings of academic achievement and behavioural adaptation at the end of first grade. It appears that the Bender Gestalt test performance at the end of kindergarten is strongly correlated with teacher observations at the end of first grade. Although the relationship between Human Drawing scores and teacher ratings of academic behaviour was not as strong, a relationship was observed between teacher ratings of peer relations and conduct and these scores.

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Relationship of Bender Gestalt Developmental Scores and Human Drawing Developmental Scores in a Sample of Turkish Preschool Children

Özer

2009

School Psychology International

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“…TEMAS meets criteria for theory, stimuli, service delivery, scores, norms, and interpretations to a greater extent than do other instruments (Dana, 2007). It provides strength-based assessment of positive and negative personality and psychopathology and has a direct impact on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment planning, and individualized interventions.…”

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Personality tests and psychological science: Instruments, populations, practice.

Dana¹

2014

APA Handbook of Multicultural Psychology, Vol. 2: Applications and Training.

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Assessment science is an essential component of an enlarged conceptualization of psychological science. A relatively small number of personality and psychopathology instruments provided diagnostic and treatment information in Veterans Administration hospitals following the end of World War II in 1945. In 1949 conference in Boulder, Colorado developed a scientist-practitioner training model for training clinical psychologists in scientific methodology and research that expanded the earlier repertoire of assessment instruments. Criticism of the Boulder model in 1964 led to a 1973 conference in Vail, Colorado that recommended a practitionerscholar model to prepare psychologists for clinical practice with an extended range of diverse client populations. Over time the differences in assessment training between Boulder and Vail training models diminished in professional psychology training programs. Culturally competent clinical diagnosis and personality description now requires knowledge, supervised training, and practical skills combining assessment, intervention, and methodologically sophisticated research. These ingredients are represented in a new assessment science incorporating comprehensive assessment with standard instruments, adaptations, and other procedures. CHAPTER CONTENTS Reconciling Training ModelsContemporary professional psychology is in the process of reconciling original Boulder and Vail differences in assessment training. Reconciliation strategies include restoration of psychometric training, recent American Psychological Association (APA) initiatives, compilation of multicultural competency measures, recognition of exemplary cultural competency training programs, and the multicultural assessment-intervention process (MAIP) model. These strategies restore assessment credibility, remediate scientific critiques of specific instruments, and contribute to an expanded breadth and depth of assessment processes (see also Volume 1, Chapter 8, this handbook).

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“…Important to note is that Roberts-2 is a performance-based measure, although this is not clearly stated in the manual. Leading researchers on narrative measures (e.g., Dana, 2007;Teglasi, 2001) have emphasized that narrative assessment is performance based in that an individual is completing a task or solving a problem. Moreover, narrative assessment is an opportunity to observe a youngster solving a problem in a standard situation (Flanagan, 2003).…”

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Test Review: Roberts, G. E., & Gruber, C. (2005). Roberts-2. Los Angeles: Western Psychological Services

Flanagan

2007

Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment

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Culturally competent school assessment: Performance measures of personality

Cited by 9 publications

References 62 publications

Relationship of Bender Gestalt Developmental Scores and Human Drawing Developmental Scores in a Sample of Turkish Preschool Children

Relationship of Bender Gestalt Developmental Scores and Human Drawing Developmental Scores in a Sample of Turkish Preschool Children

Personality tests and psychological science: Instruments, populations, practice.

Test Review: Roberts, G. E., & Gruber, C. (2005). Roberts-2. Los Angeles: Western Psychological Services

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