Study Programmes 2015-2016
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Assessment of wittren language
Duration :
15h Th, 15h Pr
Number of credits :
Bachelor in psychology and education : speech and language therapy3
Bachelor in psychology and education : speech and language therapy3
Master in speech and language therapy (120 ECTS)3
Lecturer :
Martine Poncelet
Language(s) of instruction :
French language
Organisation and examination :
Teaching in the second semester
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Course contents :
The course comprises a theorical part and a practical part. The theorical part consists in: 1) a brief note about the psychometric characteristics of good tests 2) a brief presentation concerning explicative theories about specific difficulties in learning to read. 3)presentation of some tests of reading abilities. The practical part for the students consists in: 1) to administer different reading tests to an ordinary child; 2) in the context of a seminar, to present these tests as well as the performance of the children tested by the students
Learning outcomes of the course :
Familarization with the use of the reading tests.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
learning to use differents reading tests
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
face-to-face and activities of testing in children
Recommended or required readings :
Laveault, D. & Grégoire, J. (1997). Introduction aux théories des tests en sciences humaines. Chap. 1 (pp. 7-37). Bruxelles : Editions De Boeck Université.
Poncelet, M. (2009). Les troubles spécifiques de l'apprentissage du langage écrit. In M. Poncelet, S. Majerus, & M. Van der Linden (Eds.), Traité de Neuropsychologie de l'Enfant (pp. 159-220). Marseille : Solal.
Syllabus : les tests de langage écrit et de calcul.
Assessment methods and criteria :
assessment based on
- presentation of the used tests and results obtained by children
- written exam
Work placement(s) :
Organizational remarks :
second quadrimester
Contacts :
Martine.Poncelet@ulg.ac.be