11: School psychology Flashcards
What is looked at by a school psychologist?
The child, but also the environment: class, teachers, parents.
What is action oriented assessment?
- Handelingsgerichte diagnostiek
- It’s a direct approach to finding out what’s ‘wrong’ with the child.
What is part of action oriented assessment?
- Intake: hulpvraag
- Strategy: what do you need to do?
- Assessment
- Defining
- Advise
What can you say about intelligence tests and action oriented assessment?
Intelligence tests are not a standard part of diagnostics.
You only do it when you need it.
What are 3 factors that influence learning in school?
- Physical development
- Cognitive development
- Social/emotional development
What are 4 things the teacher needs to do good in order to optimize learning?
- Social/emotional conditions for learning
- Behavior in class
- Cognitive conditions for learning
- Learning level
What’s the triangle of student succes?
Parent - student - school
Has to be safe, if there are problems in any of these relationships it affects succes
What are the basic human and student needs?
- Relatedness: confidence that you will achieve, given by others
- Autonomy: being able to do something on your own
- Competence: what you know you’re good at
Why does the teacher matter?
The teacher creates situations like involvement, structure and autonomy support which are good for the basic student need which creates motivation.
What are 6 different activities of intervention?
- Prevention
- Identification
- Assessment
- Advise
- Intervention
- Evaluation
What are 6 levels of intervention?
- Pupil
- Teacher
- Classroom
- School
- School system
- Parents
What are the 3 levels of intelligence?
Intelligence A: inborn capacity; the intelligence you are born with > genotype
Intelligence B: the influence of the environment > phenotype
Intelligence C: the results of an intelligence test.
What is intelligence according to Spearman?
He believed in:
a general intelligence factor (g): which helped with mental activity for many tasks
What did Stanford-Binet do?
Introduced the first test to measure a childs mental age (normative measuring) to predict school succes.
- Also wanted to take motivation into account.
What is fluid and crystallized intelligence?
Fluid intelligence is the inborn capacity to think flexible; reasoning in new situations
(Decreases with age)
Crystallized intelligence is the knowledge and skills developed by experience through life
(Increases with age)
