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School Psychology Doctoral Program Student Learning Objectives

Program Coordinator: Catherine Fiorello

Goal Category Goal Description Secondary Goal Description
EDUC SCH PSY PhD 01 Core Skills To prepare students to utilize evidence-based practice in assessment, consultation, and intervention.
EDUC SCH PSY PhD 01.01 Knowledge Students will demonstrate knowledge of the theoretical, empirical, and practical literature on assessment.
EDUC SCH PSY PhD 01.02 Consultation Knowledge Students will demonstrate knowledge of the theoretical and empirical literature on consultation.
EDUC SCH PSY PhD 01.03 Consultation Skills Students will demonstrate basic consultation skills, including active listening, hypothesis generation, hypothesis testing, feedback to teachers, summarizing, eliciting case details, dealing with resistance, conducting direct teacher observations (evaluations of the instructional environment) and student observations (both structured and unstructured)
EDUC SCH PSY PhD 01.04 Teacher Consultation Students will demonstrate the ability to consult with teachers about the academic and behavior problems of students in schools, appropriately evaluating the outcomes in terms of student performance.
EDUC SCH PSY PhD 01.05 Interventions Knowledge Students will demonstrate knowledge of the theoretical and empirical literature on academic, behavioral, and psychotherapeutic interventions.
EDUC SCH PSY PhD 01.06 Interventions Practice Students will demonstrate the ability to design, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of empirically validated academic, behavioral, and psychotherapeutic interventions.
EDUC SCH PSY PhD 02 Research To prepare students to integrate and apply research findings to the practice of school psychology and to perform empirical research.
EDUC SCH PSY PhD 02.01 Critical Analysis Students will demonstrate knowledge of research findings and the ability to critically analyze research.
EDUC SCH PSY PhD 02.02 Design Students will demonstrate the ability to design and conduct research to answer basic and applied questions to contribute to the expansion of scientific knowledge in general and School Psychology and the field of Education in particular. Within this objective is the ability to apply research design skills, apply statistical techniques appropriately and interpret the results, design the methodology for a research project, write a research proposal, including an introduction and rationale, hypotheses, a review of the literature, and methodology, and finally conduct a full research project.
EDUC SCH PSY PhD 02.03 Disseminate Students will demonstrate the ability to disseminate research findings that contribute to the expansion of scientific knowledge in general and School Psychology in particular. Within this objective is the ability to present information on a relevant topic in a training format and the ability to conceptualize, organize and conduct an annual regional conference for practicing psychologists focusing on current research and practice.
EDUC SCH PSY PhD 03 Assessment Students will demonstrate mastery of administration and scoring of multiple assessments for diverse students.
EDUC SCH PSY PhD 03.01 Assessment Students will demonstrate mastery of administration and scoring of the basic instruments of cognitive assessment, personality and behavioral assessment, educational assessment, and assessment of adaptive behavior.
EDUC SCH PSY PhD 03.02 Diverse Assessment Students will demonstrate the ability to perform diagnostic assessments of a wide variety of students from preschool through twelfth grade, including assessment of children with low-incidence disabilities and children at high risk for school failure, and to convey the results of these assessments orally and in writing.
EDUC SCH PSY PhD 04 Diversity To prepare students to understand and appreciate diversity and demonstrate sensitivity to diverse populations.
EDUC SCH PSY PhD 04.01 Knowledge Students will demonstrate knowledge of diversity, including impact of racial, ethnic, class, cultural, language, lifestyle and ability differences on the practice of school psychology, including assessment, consultation, remediation, intervention, and working with families.
EDUC SCH PSY PhD 04.02 Sensitivity Students will demonstrate sensitivity toward diversity by adjusting language to be sensitive to cultural, socioeconomic and lifestyle issues when providing feedback of information to parents, adjusting language when consulting with teachers, and by continued discussion of individual differences relative to assessment and interventions.
EDUC SCH PSY PhD 05 Prof. Standards To prepare students to function at the highest level of professional, ethical, and legal standards.
EDUC SCH PSY PhD 05.01 Knowledge Students will demonstrate knowledge of the APA code of ethics, the NASP code of ethics, the ethical standards of the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychology, and the Pennsylvania State and Federal Laws relevant to school psychology.
EDUC SCH PSY PhD 05.02 Application Students will apply the knowledge APA code of ethics, the NASP code of ethics, the ethical standards of the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychology, and the Pennsylvania State and Federal Laws relevant to school psychology.