Esquecidos após a exclusão escolar: uma meta-análise do estudo da deriva educacional / Forgotten after school exclusion: an educational drift study meta-analysis / Olvidados tras la exclusión escolar: un metanálisis del estudio de la deriva educativa

Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar os desafios e possibilidades encontradas no estudo da deriva educacional, condição em que os sujeitos já estiveram na escola, mas foram dela excluídos antes de concluir a educação básica, sendo responsabilizados pelo retorno aos estudos. Trata-se de um ensaio teórico-metodológico que foca no pensamento categorial, sobretudo a categoria da dimensão subjetiva como recurso para apreensão da concreticidade do fenômeno social estudado. A deriva educacional é um fenômeno social pouco estudado no campo da Psicologia da Educação e a possibilidade de explicá-lo é desafiadora, tendo em vista as armadilhas presentes nos discursos carregados da intenção de ocultar o modo como se trata de uma condição social e historicamente determinada no modo de produção capitalista. Diante dessa dificuldade, ter como base teórico-etodológica o Materialismo Histórico-dialético (MHD) e a Psicologia Sócio-histórica (PSH) foi fundamental. O pensamento categorial possibilitou, partindo das significações dos participantes da pesquisa, superar as múltiplas camadas de aparência para compreender a deriva educacional em sua complexidade. A categoria da dimensão subjetiva e o processo de análise por meio dos núcleos de significação possibilitaram chegar a uma síntese das múltiplas determinações da deriva educacional que permitiu explicá-la de forma contra-hegemônica, apontando para os movimentos já existentes ou ainda necessários para a transformação, sem recorrer à justificativas individualizantes, psicologizantes ou sociologizantes. (AU)

This article aims to analyze the challenges and possibilities experienced in the educational drift study, condition in which the subjects had already been to school, but were excluded from it before completing basic education, being held responsible for returning to their studies. This is a theoretical-methodological essay that focuses on categorical thinking, especially the subjective dimension category as a resource for apprehending the social phenomenon concreteness. Educational drift is a social phenomenon on which there are few studies in the field of Educational Psychology. The possibility of explaining this issue is a challenge, since the pitfalls present in the discourses intended to hide the way in which it is a social and historically determined condition in the capitalist mode of production. Faced with this difficulty, it was fundamental to have Historical-Dialectical Materialism (MHD) and Socio-Historical Psychology (PSH) as a theoreticalmethodological basis. The categorical thinking enabled us, starting from the research participants significations, to overcome the appearance of multiple layers and to understand the educational drift in its complexity. The subjective dimension category and the analysis processes through the signification nuclei made it possible to reach an educational drift multiple determinations synthesis that allowed us to explain the issue in a counter-hegemonic way, pointing to the already existing or still necessary movements to transformation, without resorting to individualizing, psychologizing or sociologizing justifications. (AU)

Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar los desafíos y las posibilidades encontradas en el estudio de la deriva educativa, condición en la que los sujetos ya habían ido a la escuela, pero fueron excluidos de ella antes de completar la educación básica, siendo responsables de regresar a sus estudios. Este es un ensayo teórico-metodológico que se centra en el pensamiento categorial, en especial la categoría de la dimensión subjetiva como recurso para aprehender la concreción del fenómeno social estudiado. Este es un fenómeno social poco estudiado en el campo de la Psicología Educativa, y la posibilidad de explicarlo es desafiante, dadas las trampas presentes en los discursos cargados con la intención de ocultar la forma en que es una condición social e históricamente determinada en la forma de producción capitalista. Ante esta dificultad, tener como base teórico-metodológica el Materialismo Histórico-Dialéctico (MHD) y la Psicología Socio-Histórica (PSH) fue fundamental. El pensamiento categórico nos permitió, a partir de los significados de los participantes de la investigación, superar las múltiples capas de apariencia para comprender la deriva educativa en su complejidad. La categoría de la dimensión subjetiva y los procesos de análisis a través de los núcleos de significación permitieron llegar a una síntesis de múltiples determinaciones de la deriva educativa que permitieron explicarla de manera contrahegemónico, apuntando a los movimientos ya existentes o aún necesarios a la transformación, sin recurrir a justificaciones individualizantes, psicologizantes o sociologizantes.(AU)

Inquiry in psychology.

When they discuss the Danish academic situation, Szulevicz, Lund and Lund (2021) address three questions about the academic training of psychology researchers: (a) why do Danish master's students in psychology more frequently choose the qualitative method for their research?; (b) what are psychology students working on?; and (c) what are they interested in? These three questions have led us to reflect on researcher training and the political and educational model universities adopt for psychology master's courses, not only in the Danish context, but also in other general contexts. In this commentary, we will discuss one strictly normative issue: what should the scientific ideal be for training researchers in psychology? Or more accurately: how can psychology contribute to discussions about the scientific ideal of researcher training in this knowledge area?

The Moderating Role of Mathematical Skill Level when Using Curricular Methods to Learn Multiplication Tables / El papel moderador del nivel de habilidad matemática al emplear métodos curriculares para la enseñanza de las tablas de multiplicación

The present study explores the effect of two instructional methods for children with different levels of mathematical skills. One of these methods uses a conventional approach to learning multiplication and emphasizes the memorization of all arithmetic facts, whereas the other method is based on psychological principles and combines: a) the memorization of a small subset of problems aided by color cues and a portable time-table, with b) the use of single-step rules. One hundred and sixty second-grade children (aged 7-8) received instruction in one of these approaches – either the conventional method or the memory and rules method (M&R) – over the course of 6 months as part of their normal school education. Moderation analysis revealed that children with poor mathematical skills in the conventional group scored significantly better than their counterparts in the M&R group, whereas a significant advantage was observed in the M&R group for those children with strong mathematical skills. (AU)

El presente estudio explora el efecto de dos métodos de enseñanza de la multiplicación simple en alumnos de primaria con diferentes niveles de habilidades matemáticas. Un método se basa en el enfoque convencional para el aprendizaje de las multiplicaciones que enfatiza la memorización de todas ellas, mientras que el otro se basa en principios psicológicos y combina: a) la memorización de un pequeño subconjunto de multiplicaciones auxiliadas con claves de color y una tabla portátil con las multiplicaciones con b) el uso de reglas de un solo paso. Ciento sesenta niños y niñas de segundo de primaria (de 7 a 8 años) recibieron instrucción en uno de estos métodos, ya fuera el convencional o el método de memorización y reglas (M&R), durante 6 meses como parte de su educación escolar normal. El análisis de moderación reveló que los niños con habilidades matemáticas bajas en el grupo convencional obtuvieron puntuaciones significativamente mejores que sus pares en el grupo M&R, mientras que se observó una ventaja significativa en el grupo M&R para aquellos niños con altas habilidades matemáticas. (AU)

Aproximación al aprendizaje pedagógico en la discapacidad intelectual leve / An approach to pedagogical learning in mild intellectual disability

Este trabajo presenta una reflexión actualizada de métodos y estrategias eficaces para el aprendizaje del cálculo, la escritura y lectura en sujetos con discapacidad intelectual leve. Conforme con el análisis de las investigaciones abordadas, se puede concluir que, si bien los propósitos de la atención pedagógica a los sujetos con déficit intelectual vienen enmarcados bajo los principios de la educación inclusiva, se evidencia una gran diferencia entre las intenciones de la educación inclusiva y la realidad de las instituciones educativas. Así, los niños con discapacidad intelectual leve, pese a ser integrados en el aula regular, no logran recibir la atención educativa requerida para fortalecer los aprendizajes pedagógicos de lectoescritura y cálculo; situación que se relaciona con el desconocimiento, por parte de los docentes, de las estrategias pedagógicas para abordar las particularidades educativas de esta población. El resultado del análisis, evidencia la existencia de diversas técnicas; indica, al mismo tiempo, que no existe un método específico para el aprendizaje de habilidades académicas en los sujetos con deficiencias intelectuales leves, sugiere identificar el interés y la necesidad de los estudiantes para así establecer flexibilizaciones en las planeaciones pedagógicas y metodológicas del currículo que favorezcan el proceso de aprendizaje

This work presents an updated reflection of effective methods and strategies for learning calculation, writing and reading in subjects with mild intellectual disabilities. According to the analysis of the analyzed researches we can concluded that, although the purposes of pedagogical attention to subjects with intellectual deficits are framed under the principles of inclusive education, there is evidence of a great difference between the intentions of inclusive education and the reality of educational institutions. Thus, children with mild intellectual disabilities, despite being integrated into the regular classroom, do not manage to receive the educational attention required to strengthen the pedagogical learning of literacy and numeracy. A situation that is related to the ignorance, from teachers, of the pedagogical strategies to address the educational particularities of this population. The result of the analysis shows the existence of various techniques, indicates, at the same time, that there is no specific method for learning academic skills in subjects with mild intellectual deficiencies, we suggest identifying the interest and need of students in order to do so, establishing flexibilities in the pedagogical and methodological planning of the curriculum that favor the learning process.Keywords: Learning; Intellectual deficit; Intellectual disability; Inclusive education; Teaching; Reading/writing; Mathematics; Pedagogy.

Effectiveness of Self-Regulation and Serious Games for Learning STEM Knowledge in Primary Education / Efectividad de la Autorregulación y los Serious Games Para el Aprendizaje de Conocimientos STEM en Educación Primaria

BACKGROUND: The learning of scientific and technological subjects is fundamental in the society of the 21st century. However, a gender gap is detected in the choice of degrees in these subjects. Recent studies indicate the need to take action from the primary education stage to increase student motivation towards these disciplines. METHODS: We worked with a sample of 147 students in the final years of Primary Education. SRL and serious games were applied in initial tasks to computer programming. The objectives were to study the influence of gender, environment and academic level variables on the results in the resolution of initial programming tasks and on student satisfaction with their completion. RESULTS: The mean level of results in these tasks was high (8 out of 10). However, significant differences were found for gender, academic level, and the covariate age. With respect to satisfaction, no significant differences were found except in the continuity of work. CONCLUSIONS: The use of SRL and serious play tasks promotes good levels of performance and satisfaction in all students, although differences in favour of the male gender are detected

ANTECEDENTES: el aprendizaje de materias científico-tecnológicas es fundamental en la sociedad del s. XXI. Si bien, se detecta una brecha de género en la elección de titulaciones en estas materias. Estudios recientes indican la necesidad de realizar acciones desde la etapa de Educación Primaria para aumentar la motivación de los estudiantes hacia estas disciplinas. MÉTODO: se trabajó con una muestra de 147 estudiantes de los últimos cursos de Educación Primaria. Se aplicó SRL y serious games en tareas de inicio a la programación informática. Los objetivos fueron estudiar la influencia de las variables género, entorno y nivel académico sobre los resultados en la resolución de tareas de inicio a la programación y en la satisfacción de los estudiantes con su realización. RESULTADOS: el nivel medio de resultados en estas tareas fue alto (8 sobre 10). Sin embargo, se hallaron diferencias significativas respecto de las variables género, nivel académico y efectos de la covariable edad. Relativo de la satisfacción no se hallaron diferencias significativas salvo en la continuidad de trabajo. CONCLUSIONES: la utilización de SRL y de tareas de juego serios potencia buenos niveles de rendimiento y de satisfacción en todos los estudiantes, aunque se detectan diferencias a favor del género masculino

Performance feedback during writing instruction: A cost-effectiveness analysis.

Students in K-12 settings experience poor writing outcomes, with less than 30% of students writing at the proficient level. Coupled with the pressure to improve academic outcomes with limited resources, schools are in dire need of efficient, universally provided instructional activities that promote writing skills. Performance feedback on writing fluency was designed to be a brief, low-resource universally provided instructional activity to facilitate writing development and has demonstrated moderate to large effects on formative writing measures. The current study was conducted to directly evaluate the extent to which performance feedback on writing fluency is cost-effective. This study uses the ingredients method to estimate the costs of providing performance feedback on writing fluency and calculates incremental cost-effectiveness ratios based on secondary data from a randomized controlled trial. Results suggest that performance feedback is more cost-effective than comprehensive systems reform initiatives and comparable to other universally provided interventions, and therefore should be considered a cost-effective approach to improve writing fluency for all students. Results provide school psychologists with concrete examples of how to support prevention and intervention activities aimed to improve student writing outcomes. Limitations and suggestions for future research are also discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

Experiential-Learning Opportunities Enhance Engagement in Pipeline Program: A Qualitative Study of the Doctors of Tomorrow Summer Internship Program.

PURPOSE: Doctors of Tomorrow (DoT) is a pipeline program between the University of Michigan Medical School and Cass Technical High School in Detroit where the overall mission is to encourage youth from communities that are underrepresented in medicine to pursue their interests in healthcare careers. Students have the opportunity to apply for a summer internship between 9th grade and 10th grade. There is limited literature on the effectiveness of experiential-learning opportunities in pipeline programs to support development of personal and professional skills. The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of students participating in the DoT summer internship program in order to better understand how their engagement influenced personal and professional development. METHOD: An exploratory qualitative study was conducted using responses from 27 students who participated in the DoT summer internship program between 2014 and 2018. Students engaged in self-reflective practices prompted by weekly surveys. Data were analyzed through an inductive process by coding and thematic analysis. RESULTS: Four overarching themes were identified: (1) engagement in authentic experiential-learning opportunities; (2) development of professional skills; (3) self-reflection and actualization; and (4) real world barriers in experiential-learning. CONCLUSIONS: High school students engaged in a variety of different community internships and shared insights that illustrated depth and diversity of understanding health in their community. Their reflections illustrate the added value of experiential-education in pipeline programs.

Oversimplifying Teaching of the Control of Variables Strategy / La excesiva simplificación de la enseñanza de control de estrategia de variables

Two experiments compared closely related interventions to teach the control of variables strategy (CVS) to fourth-grade students. Over the two experiments, an intervention first developed by Chen and Klahr (1999) was most effective at helping students learn how to design and evaluate single-factor experiments. In Experiment 1, attempts to reduce the cognitive load imposed by Chen and Klahr’s basic teaching intervention actually produced poorer learning and transfer of CVS. In Experiment 2, attempts to simplify Chen and Klahr’s algorithm for teaching students how to set up a valid experimental design also produced poorer learning and transfer of CVS. Both experiments illustrate that oversimplifying a domain or the logic behind controlling variables can undermine the effectiveness of an intervention designed to teach CVS

Mediante dos experimentos se compararon intervenciones estrechamente relacionadas con el objetivo de enseñar el control de estrategia de variables (CVS) a estudiantes de cuarto grado. Durante los dos experimentos, una intervención desarrollada primero por Chen y Klahr (1999) fue más eficaz para ayudar a los estudiantes a aprender a diseñar y evaluar experimentos de un solo factor. En el experimento 1, los intentos de reducir la carga cognitiva impuesta por la intervención básica de enseñanza de Chen y Klahr produjeron un aprendizaje y transferencia de CVS peores. En el experimento 2, los intentos de simplificar el algoritmo de Chen y Klahr para enseñar a los estudiantes cómo establecer un diseño experimental válido también produjeron un aprendizaje y transferencia de CVS peores. Ambos experimentos ilustran que simplificar excesivamente un dominio o la lógica que subyace en el control de variables puede socavar la eficacia de una intervención diseñada para enseñar CVS

Allocation to groups: Examples of Lord's paradox.

BACKGROUND: Educational and developmental psychologists often examine how groups change over time. Two analytic procedures - analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) and the gain score model - each seem well suited for the simplest situation, with just two groups and two time points. They can produce different results, what is known as Lord's paradox. AIMS: Several factors should influence a researcher's analytic choice. This includes whether the score from the initial time influences how people are assigned to groups. Examples are shown, which will help to explain this to researchers and students, and are of educational relevance. It is shown that a common method used to measure school effectiveness is biased against schools that serve students from groups that are historically poor performing. METHODS AND RESULTS: The examples come from sports and measuring educational effectiveness (e.g., for teachers or schools). A simulation study shows that if the covariate influences group allocation, the ANCOVA is preferred, but otherwise, the gain score model may be appropriate. Regression towards the mean is used to account for these findings. CONCLUSIONS: Analysts should consider the relationship between the covariate and group allocation when deciding upon their analytic method. Because the influence of the covariate on group allocation may be complex, the appropriate method may be complex. Because the influence of the covariate on group allocation may be unknown, the choice of method may require several assumptions.

Differences in specific learning disability identification with the Woodcock-Johnson IV.

The Ability Achievement Discrepancy model remains the primary identification method used by school personnel. This study examined identification of a specific learning disability using the Ability Achievement Discrepancy model with the Woodcock-Johnson IV (WJ-IV). Two different test scores can be used to represent the ability construct: one that maintains the overlap between intelligence quotient (IQ) and basic psychological processes (i.e., general intellectual ability) and one that mostly removes the overlap between IQ and basic psychological processes (i.e., fluid-crystallized intelligence). The study included 3,736 individuals from the WJ-IV standardization sample to ascertain whether different proportions of individuals were identified by the 2 methods as well as identify which tests contributed to the differences. χ2 tests of independence and absolute ratios were used to examine the proportion of individuals identified; a multivariate analysis of variance and follow-up Tukey honestly significant differences were conducted to determine whether the groups of individuals identified in each model differed on their academic achievement scores, and Mann-Whitney U tests were used to identify the tests that contributed to differences in identification rates. The results indicated that different proportions of individuals were identified as a function of the IQ score used, even though achievement scores were generally similar across identification methods. Black students were overrepresented and White students were underrepresented compared with their proportion in the total sample. Discrepancy profiles largely varied as a function of the internal psychometrics of the WJ-IV rather than characteristics of the individual. Implications for practice and methodological limitations are reviewed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

Intervention programs in educational psychology: bridging research and practice / Programas de intervención en psicología educativa: tendiendo puentes entre la investigación y la práctica

The term evidence-based intervention has been increasingly used in educational research. Calls for the use of intervention programs based on supportive empirical evidence rely in the recognition that the likelihood of achieving positive results when implementing such programs increases. Nevertheless, the gap between research and practice remains also in Spanish-speaking countries. Using examples from the area of reading research, this work aims at promoting the reflection and discussion about the relationship between scientific evidence and school practice, particularly in the context of Spanish-speaking countries. On the one side, there is the importance of generating evidence through the design of high-quality studies based on both sound theoretical background and high methodological standards. On the other side, there is the value of professional experience gathered by the teachers in very diverse school realities. How can we build a bridge to connect these two indispensable parts in order to be able to better serve the populations of interest? We defend the need of developing a sustainable collaborative system between the research community and the educational centers that enables continuous exchange and reciprocal support in longer lasting relationships

El término intervención basada en evidencia se está utilizando cada vez más en la investigación educativa. La necesidad de llevar a cabo programas de intervención basados en evidencia científica se fundamenta en que la probabilidad de lograr resultados positivos al implementar dichos programas es mayor. Sin embargo, la brecha entre la investigación y la práctica se mantiene en los países de habla hispana. Utilizando ejemplos del área de investigación en lectura, este trabajo tiene como objetivo promover la reflexión y la discusión sobre la relación entre la evidencia científica y la práctica educativa, particularmente en el contexto de los países hispanohablantes. Por un lado, existe la importancia de generar evidencia a través del diseño de estudios de alta calidad basados tanto en sólidos antecedentes te ó ricos como en altos estándares metodológicos. Por otro lado, existe el valor de la experiencia profesional de los profesores en realidades escolares muy diversas. ¿Cómo podemos construir puentes para conectar estas dos partes indispensables y atender mejor a las poblaciones de interés? Defendemos la necesidad de desarrollar un sistema de colaboración sostenible entre la comunidad científica y la educativa que permita el intercambio continuo y un apoyo recíproco mediante relaciones más estables

Unpleasant past experience as a determinant of cognitive, behavioral and physiological responses to academic stress in professional examination candidates / La experiencia desagradable como determinante de las respuestas cognitivas, conductuales y fisiológicas de estrés académico en universitarios opositores

This investigation established unpleasant past experience in interdependent and predictive relations with irrational beliefs, test anxiety, self-regulated study and academic stress, variables belonging to the competency for performing in highly demanding contexts. Participants were 221 candidates from preparatory academies who were competing for posts as public elementary school teachers. The variables were measured using validated self-reports. A linear, ex post-facto design was used, with inferential and structural analyses. Unpleasant experience was shown to have significant, positive, interdependent relations with irrational beliefs and physiological stress responses, as well as negative relations with self-regulated study. Significant, predictive, structural relations were found between unpleasant experience and cognitive, behavioral, and physiological stress responses. These results partially validate the relationships of the SLPS Competency model, explaining learning in stressful contexts, and offer evidence of the need to train students in these situations

Esta investigación estableció las relaciones de interdependencia y predicción entre experiencia desagradable previa y creencias irracionales, ansiedad evaluativa, autorregulación en el estudio y estrés académico, variables de la competencia para rendir en contextos de alta exigencia. Participaron 221 aspirantes de academias preparatorias a la función pública del cuerpo de Maestros. Las variables fueron medidas mediante autoinformes validados. El diseño fue ex post-facto lineal, con análisis inferenciales y estructurales. Los resultados mostraron relaciones significativas positivas de interdependencia de la experiencia desagradable con las creencias irracionales y respuestas fisiológicas de estrés, así como negativas con la autorregulación en el estudio. Además, apareció una relación estructural predictiva significativa entre experiencia desagradable y respuestas cognitivas, conductuales y fisiológicas de estrés. Estos resultados validan parcialmente las relaciones del modelo CAERE, explicando el aprendizaje en contextos estresantes, y evidencian la necesidad de entrenar a los estudiantes ante estas situaciones

Effectiveness of the Whole Inclusive School Empowerment (WISE) project in supporting preschool children with diverse learning needs.

AIM: The aim of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Whole Inclusive School Empowerment (WISE) project in supporting preschool children with diverse learning needs. METHOD: This study adopted a mixed method design. The quantitative section was a quasi-experiment comprising eight intervention preschools (378 students, 68 teachers) with a support team of an educational psychologist and a teacher coordinator, compared with eight control preschools (281 students, 61 teachers) without the support team. Teachers completed questionnaires on students' school readiness and behavior as well as their own teaching efficacy at pre-intervention, mid-intervention, and post-intervention. The qualitative part consisted of preschool principals and teachers participating in focus group discussions. RESULTS: The quantitative results indicated a significant interaction effect (group X time) for students' school readiness, behavior problem and prosocial behavior, as well as teachers' efficacy. Qualitative findings from principals and teachers also showed that the WISE project brought benefits to the preschools, teachers, students and parents. CONCLUSIONS: The results provided promising evidence on the effectiveness of the WISE project in supporting preschool children with diverse learning needs.

Linear-linear piecewise growth mixture models with unknown random knots: A primer for school psychology.

Studying change over time requires rigorous and sometimes novel statistical methods that can support increasingly complex applied research questions. In this article, we provide an overview of the potential of piecewise growth mixture models. This type of longitudinal model can be used to advance our understanding of group and individual growth that may follow a segmented, or disjointed, pattern of change, and where the data come from a mixture of two or more latent classes. We then demonstrate the practical utility of piecewise growth mixture models by applying it to a subsample of students from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Kindergarten Cohort of 1998 (ECLS-K) to ascertain whether mathematics achievement is characterized by one or two latent classes akin to students with and without mathematics difficulties. We discuss the applicability for school psychological research and provide supplementary online files that include an instructional sample dataset and corresponding R routine with explanatory annotations to assist in understanding the R routine before applying this approach in novel applications (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsp.2019.03.004).

Sexta evaluación de test editados en España: Resultados e impacto del modelo en docentes y editoriales / Sixth review of tests published in Spain: Results and impact of the model on lecturers and publishers

El cuestionario para la Evaluación de los Tests (CET; Prieto y Muñiz, 2000) y su revisión (CET-R; Hernández et al., 2016) se han venido aplicando sistemáticamente desde 2010, impulsado por la Comisión de tests del Consejo General de la Psicología del Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos. El objetivo es proporcionar información contrastada sobre la calidad de las pruebas a los profesionales, con el fin de mejorar el uso de los tests. El presente trabajo tiene un doble objetivo. El primero, presentar los resultados de la sexta evaluación de tests psicológicos y educativos, en la que se han revisado un total de 10 tests. El segundo, evaluar el impacto que la aplicación del CET/CET-R ha tenido durante estos años en dos agentes cruciales: las editoriales de tests, y los profesores universitarios encargados de formar a los futuros profesionales usuarios de tests. Los resultados de la sexta evaluación, así como los resultados de la encuesta para evaluar el impacto del CET/CET-R, se pueden considerar en general satisfactorios. Sin embargo, se identifican varios aspectos que son susceptibles de mejora

The Questionnaire for the Assessment of Tests (CET; Prieto & Muñiz, 2000) and the revised version of this questionnaire (CET-R; Hernández et al., 2016) have been applied systematically since 2010 by the Test Commission of the Spanish Psychological Association. The main goal is to provide practitioners with reliable information on the quality of the tests in order to improve test use. The aim of this paper is twofold. First, to present the results of the sixth review of psychological and educational tests, in which a total of 10 tests have been evaluated. Second, to assess the impact that the application of CET/CET-R has had over these years on two key agents: test publishers and university lecturers who are responsible for training future test users. Both the results of the sixth review and the results of the survey to assess the impact of CET/CET-R are satisfactory in general terms. However, some issues where there is room for improvement have been identified

Evaluating implementation supports delivered within problem-solving consultation.

Teachers participating in problem-solving consultation often struggle to maintain adequate treatment fidelity, which is necessary to improve student outcomes. Low levels of treatment fidelity may result from implementation barriers, such as intervention compatibility, implementer skill, and implementer motivation. This study involves the evaluation of five implementation supports designed to address implementation barriers (i.e., Implementation Planning, Role Play, Participant Modeling, Raising Awareness, Motivational Consulting) within problem-solving consultation. Across 14 randomized individual single-case AB intervention designs, we evaluated the impact of these implementation supports on teacher treatment fidelity of classroom management plans and class-wide academic engagement and disruptive behavior. Visual analysis, descriptive statistics, and randomization test analyses suggest that these implementation supports have the potential to be broadly effective in improving teachers' fidelity and student outcomes. Teachers required a different number of supports to increase fidelity levels and rated the implementation supports positively. Implications of the study's findings are described.

Test use and assessment practices of school psychologists in the United States: Findings from the 2017 National Survey.

Although several studies have examined the specific instruments and procedures used by school psychologists when conducting comprehensive psychoeducational evaluations, the last one was published over 20 years ago (viz., Wilson & Reschly, 1996). Given the substantial theoretical and practical advances in assessment since then, the purpose of the current study was to examine the test use and assessment practices of contemporary school psychologists in the United States. Data from the 2017 National Survey of Assessment Practices in School Psychology revealed that test use and assessment practices have evolved significantly. Much of this change consists of the substitution of tests and practices with limited reliability and validity with those with greater psychometric support. Results of this study also indicate that school psychologists regularly conduct multi-method assessments to prevent, identify, monitor, and remediate child and adolescent learning difficulties and other presenting problems in the schools.

Public educational psychology services in Israel on the internet.

BACKGROUND: The public Educational Psychology Services provide mental health services for children and youth in Israel, alongside the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Services. The Psychological and Counseling Services Division of the Ministry of Education (known as SHEFI - Sherut Psychology Yeutzi), funds and supervises local Educational Psychology Services which are aimed at supporting child development and enhancing the emotional welfare of children and their families. The demand for the services of educational psychologists is increasing. Yet this demand is not being met due to the insufficient number of job slots allocated, the geographical distances in outlying peripheral areas, the already high loads in the psychologists' daily routine, and other such problems. A wide range of effective psychological services can be offered via the internet. The internet therefore has the potential to serve as a useful and efficient missing link between the high demands for educational psychology services on the one hand and the ability and desire among educational psychologists to meet those needs on the other. Moreover, even if the services were fully staffed, the resources would still be insufficient to provide personal (face-to-face) treatment for all, so that internet-based access to services would still need to be developed. Those services provide unique advantages such as overcoming distance and enabling higher availability of mental health professionals. The objectives of the current study were to describe the prevalence of public educational psychology services available online in Israel, with specific focus on the Arab minority and the peripheral regions, and to highlight the benefits of expanding those services. METHOD: During 2016, we conducted a survey comprising all 252 Public Educational Psychology Service units in Israel (n = 170 in the Jewish sector, and n = 82 in the Arab sector). The method used to search for online sites was in line with the actions taken by an average end-user searching for information on the internet. RESULTS: The survey found that 125 of the units in the Jewish sector (73.5% of those units) and all 82 units in the Arab sector had no online site at all, constituting 82.2% of all the units in Israel. Of the 45 Jewish websites located by the survey, 42 (93.3% of the sites) were not user friendly (not interactive), and only three offered the possibility of interacting with psychologists (6.7% of the sites). Nevertheless, all the sites (n = 45) offered a high degree of quality and variety that exceeded basic information. CONCLUSION: We believe that the presence of educational psychologists on the internet is essential in order to meet the challenges presented by the growing needs of students, parents and teachers in the current digital era. The survey revealed that the public educational psychology system in Israel has not yet bridged the technological gap. Special attention should be directed to the peripheral regions and to the Arab sector, where the technological services can make a significant contribution. The local public services' attempts to create and operate websites (45 Jewish websites according to the survey), are indicative of the determination to offer psychological support to the community at large, and of the ambition to overcome availability and accessibility problems. The concept of internet services might be useful not only for the SHEFI, but also for the array of mental health services for children and youth in Israel. Thus, we recommend that a policy should be formulated regarding internet-based mental health services for children and youth in Israel, and we call for a collaboration between the various ministries in implementing this process.