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Using Professional Practice Frameworks to Evaluate Consultation
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Eddleston, Adrienne; Atkinson, Cathy – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2018
Within the United Kingdom (UK), recent socio-legislative changes have led to increased trading of educational psychology services (EPSs) and greater focus on accountability. However, the impact of educational psychologists' (EPs') practice can be difficult to ascertain, particularly within consultation where resultant actions are often implemented…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Psychology, Models, Accountability
Do Computerised Training Programmes Designed to Improve Working Memory Work?
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Apter, Brian J. B. – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2012
A critical review of working memory training research during the last 10 years is provided. Particular attention is given to research that has attempted to investigate the efficacy of commercially marketed computerised training programmes such as "Cogmed" and "Jungle Memory". Claimed benefits are questioned on the basis that research methodologies…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Psychologists, Short Term Memory, Assistive Technology
Supporting Children with Motor Skills Difficulties: An Initial Evaluation of the Manchester Motor Skills Programme
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Bond, Caroline – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2011
Children with motor difficulties are a very varied group. In order to target interventions more effectively researchers have attempted to identify specific sub-groups; however, attempts to identify sub-groups and provide interventions accordingly have met with limited success. Currently interventions can be classified into two main types, namely,…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Psychologists, Academic Achievement, Teaching Methods
Consulting with Groups of Teachers. Evaluation of a Pilot Project in Ireland
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Nugent, Mary; Jones, Valerie; McElroy, Deirdre; Peelo, Mary; Thornton, Teresa; Tierney, Theresa – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2014
This article reports on a two year project in which educational psychologists offered consultation to groups of teachers, to help them find solutions to school-based problems. Teachers were drawn from within individual schools and from across a number of schools. Typically, teachers were trained by educational psychologists in group consultation…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Consultation Programs, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Doing an Effective Job? Measuring the Impact of Casework
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Turner, Susannah; Randall, Leisa; Mohammed, Azra – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2010
This article describes an initiative to evaluate the impact of educational psychologists' (EPs') casework. Previous studies have often focussed on evaluating processes or reducing outcomes to measurable units. The authors argue that qualitative research methods can be used to illuminate EP effectiveness. They describe a real world and…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Educational Psychology, Research Methodology, School Psychologists
Evidence-Based Practice and Evaluation: From Insight to Impact
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Dunsmuir, Sandra; Brown, Emma; Iyadurai, Suzi; Monsen, Jeremy – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2009
With the growing emphasis on accountability and evidence-based practice, evaluation has become increasingly important in the contexts in which educational psychologists (EPs) practice. This paper describes a Target Monitoring and Evaluation (TME) system, derived from Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS) which was developed to evaluate outcomes of a wide…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Evaluation Methods, Psychometrics, Replication (Evaluation)