Competency mandate: A model for teaching skills in the administration of the WAIS-R

• Published in: Journal of clinical psychology Vol. 40; no. 4; pp. 1053 - 1059
• Main Authors: Fantuzzo, John W., Moon, Gary W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Brandon Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company 01.07.1984; Wiley
• Subjects: Biological and medical sciences; Cognition. Intelligence; Curriculum; Education, Graduate; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Professional Competence - standards; Psychology, Clinical - education; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Psychometrics; Wechsler Scales; Human; Test validation; Dragging; Psychometrics; Intelligence test; Revised drafting; Adult Intelligence Scale Wechsler
• ISSN: 0021-9762; 1097-4679
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(198407)40:4<1053::AID-JCLP2270400432>3.0.CO;2-R

The Standards for Educational and Psychological Tests as well as other official policy statements of the American Psychological Association call for competent assessment skills. However, a thorough review of the literature evidences only a handful of models that transmit these mandates into practice. The MASTERY model, a competency‐based training procedure, was employed in this investigation as a cost‐effective means of actualizing these professional standards. This systematic procedure brought 31 graduate students in clinical psychology to criterion level for competent administration of the WAIS‐R after less than 10 hours and two administrations. Practical and research implications of this training model for clinical psychology were discussed.