Psychological and Educational Assessment Tools

Posted on May 9, 2024 in Psychology and Sociology

Cognitive Development Assessments

Longeot Test of Formal Operations

Objective: To assess the level of development in formal operational thinking, including logic, reasoning, and problem-solving skills.

Author: Originally developed by Longeot in French, translated into English by Shehan and Aguirre Cárcer.

Age of Application: 11-12 years and older

Description: A paper-and-pencil test that measures four key aspects of formal thought: class inclusion, propositional logic, combinatorial reasoning, and probabilistic reasoning.

Other Cognitive Assessments

Informal Test of Immediate Retention and Recall (Professor Robert M. Careaga): Assesses digit span with and without quantitative significance and recall of procedures.
Screening Test of Cognitive Processes (Roberto Careaga): Evaluates memory, perception, psychomotor skills, thinking, learning strategies, and cognitive styles.

Language Development Assessments

Quantitative Test of Language (Sadek-Khalil; Adaptation: Roberto Medina Careaga)

Objective: To assess quantitative language skills based on understanding and applying basic math concepts in everyday language.

Age of Application: 7 years and older

Me and Math (M. Chadwick and O. Vargas)

Objectives:

To explore a child’s emotional relationship with mathematics.
To evaluate the child’s perception of how parents, teachers, and peers influence their success in math.

Description: A test consisting of situations that the child reads and responds to, related to metacognition, perception of others, and self-perception in relation to math.

Intelligence and Development Assessments

Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test

Author: Florence Goodenough

Age of Application: 3 to 10 years

Objective: To measure general intelligence through the analysis of human figure drawings.

Behavioral and Emotional Assessments

Observation Scale: Educational Setting

Assesses standards, infrastructure, educational aspects, and the teaching-learning process in an educational setting.

Hyperactive Behavior Rating Scale for Parent-Teacher

Evaluates excessive body movement, impulsivity, attention difficulties, emotional variation, poor visual-motor coordination, arithmetic and reading difficulties, memory problems, and a tendency to fail.

Schedule of Features of Child Abuse Research

A tool for psychologists, teachers, and counselors to identify potential signs of child abuse.

Guideline of Affective Social Screening Process

Assesses factors related to the teacher-student relationship in mathematics.

Roberto Test (H. Montenegro, A. Céspedes, I. Tuca)

A projective test that explores a child’s personality and behavior through their responses to questions about a boy named Roberto.

Conners Rating Scales

Used to diagnose and monitor treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Profile of Parents

Provides insights into a parent’s perspective on their child’s behavior and development.

Motor Skills Assessments

Usual Test of Laterality (M. Anzia)

Assesses a child’s hand, foot, eye, and ear dominance.

OLEA Battery

Evaluates visual-auditory discrimination, perception, analysis and synthesis, visual memory, oculomotor coordination, symbolization, auditory memory, abstraction, discrimination, form coordination, visuospatial organization, and temporal organization.

Other Assessments

Imitation of Gestures Test (Berger-Lezin)

Description: Assesses a child’s ability to imitate simple and complex gestures, as well as their understanding of opposites.