School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Psychological Assessment
  • Unit Code

    PSY5197
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Elizabeth Ann KACZMAREK

Description

The aim of this unit is to equip students with skills in assessing clients and to interpret the clinical relevance of information obtained from assessments. The theories and principles underlying psychological tests and measurement and how they impact on administration and interpretation of psychological tests will also be critically evaluated.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Develop an advanced professional appreciation of the role that psychometric, developmental and cultural factors play in the psychological assessment of clients in different clinical contexts.
  2. Perform a cognitive and personality assessment with commonly used tests of cognitive and personality function.
  3. Produce psychological reports based on the results from the administration of commonly used measures of personality and cognitive function, with a view to facilitate therapeutic client outcomes.
  4. Evaluate the clinical utility of tests and recognise the limits of psychological tests in different clinical populations.

Unit Content

  1. Administration of common measures of personality and cognitive functioning.
  2. Interpretation and reporting of the results of common measures of personality and cognitive functioning.
  3. Psychometric properties of psychological tests.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 11 x 3 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 110 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Individual skills training in assessment, online flexible delivery skills seminars.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
Assignment ^Assessment of Cognitive Functioning
Report ^Assessment of Personality

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Psychological Assessment
  • Unit Code

    PSY5197
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Elizabeth Ann KACZMAREK

Description

The aim of this unit is to equip students with skills in assessing clients and to interpret the clinical relevance of information obtained from assessments. The theories and principles underlying psychological tests and measurement and how they impact on administration and interpretation of psychological tests will also be critically evaluated.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Develop an advanced professional appreciation of the role that psychometric, developmental and cultural factors play in the psychological assessment of clients in different clinical contexts.
  2. Perform a cognitive and personality assessment with commonly used tests of cognitive and personality function.
  3. Produce psychological reports based on the results from the administration of commonly used measures of personality and cognitive function, with a view to facilitate therapeutic client outcomes.
  4. Evaluate the clinical utility of tests and recognise the limits of psychological tests in different clinical populations.

Unit Content

  1. Administration of common measures of personality and cognitive functioning.
  2. Interpretation and reporting of the results of common measures of personality and cognitive functioning.
  3. Psychometric properties of psychological tests.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 11 x 3 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 110 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Individual skills training in assessment, online flexible delivery skills seminars.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
Assignment ^Assessment of Cognitive Functioning
Report ^Assessment of Personality

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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