SOp221 Pedagogical and psychological diagnostics

Faculty of Education
Spring 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Miroslav Bielik, DiS., B.A. (lecturer)
PhDr. Denisa Denglerová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Barbara Strobachová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Denisa Denglerová, Ph.D.
Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Kateřina Štěpařová
Supplier department: Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Timetable of Seminar Groups
SOp221/01: Mon 11:00–12:50 učebna 24, M. Bielik, D. Denglerová
Prerequisites
The graduation of developmental and social psychology.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 50 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/50, only registered: 0/50, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/50
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Students will learn about the possibilities and difficulties of pedagogical-psychological diagnosis. They will learn about the usage of diagnostic methods for different clients. An overview of the basic test and clinical methods will be provided. The course objective is also to gain practical experiences with the diagnostic process.
Learning outcomes
Student: • understands the basic fields of diagnostics and their goals • is aware of the limitation of different methods • is able to evaluate psychometric qualities of the methods • apply this knowledge in the diagnostic situations • is able to use some diagnostic methods
Syllabus
  • • Objectives of the educational and psychological diagnostics. Main areas of educational and psychological diagnostics. Diagnostics of psychomotor development, talent, sensory skills, specific learning disabilities, personality, social aspects of functioning, diagnostics and psychopathology, rehabilitation / therapy, self-evaluation. • Historical development of diagnostics in psychology and education. Diagnosing such as the creation of diagnosis and assessment process (assessment). The risks and pitfalls of diagnosis. The principles of work with diagnostic methods, ethical principles of competence. • The types of diagnostic methods. Psychometric and clinical methods, qualitative and quantitative approach. Performance tests, questionnaires, projective and psychosemantic methods. • Performance tests. Demands on testing, evaluation and administration - validity, reliability, objectivity. Level measurement standards. Classical test theory. Educational tests and IQ tests. • Questionnaires. Validity and reliability of questionnaires. The work with questionnaire data. Limits of the use of questionnaires. • Clinical and qualitative methods. History, interview, observation, assessment schemes. Procedures for registering and storing information, interpretive framework. • Text as a diagnostic material. Free narration (narration), use podnětového material (unfinished sentences, vocabulary and association processes). • Analysis of the products. Drawing a game in diagnostics. Normative and projective approach to work with the drawing. • Projective methods. Psychosemantics, creation of individual significance. • Sociometry, assessment of social position and psychosocial background of the client.
Literature
  • SVOBODA, Mojmír, Dana KREJČÍŘOVÁ and Marie VÁGNEROVÁ. Psychodiagnostika dětí a dospívajících. (Psychogiagnostics of Child and Adolescents). Vydání třetí. Praha: Portál, 2015, 792 pp. ISBN 978-80-262-0899-0. info
  • MERTIN, Václav and Lenka KREJČOVÁ. Metody a postupy poznávání žáka : pedagogická diagnostika. Vyd. 1. Praha: Wolters Kluwer Česká republika, 2012, 343 s. ISBN 9788073576790. info
  • TER LAAK, Jan. Psychologická diagnostika. Jak řešit otázky klientů : Průvodce pro studenty, výzkumníky a praktické diagnostiky. I. Historie, principy. 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015, 174 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-8036-2. info
  • URBÁNEK, Tomáš, Denisa DENGLEROVÁ and Jan ŠIRŮČEK. Psychometrika : měření v psychologii. Vydání první. Praha: Portál, 2011, 319 stran. ISBN 9788073678364. URL info
  • SVOBODA, Mojmír. Psychologická diagnostika dospělých. Vyd. 3., V nakl. Portál 2. Praha: Portál, 2005, 342 s. ISBN 807367050X. info
  • GOULD, Stephen Jay. Jak neměřit člověka : pravda a předsudky v dějinách hodnocení lidské inteligence. Praha: Lidové noviny, 1998, 436 s. ISBN 8071061689. info
  • HRABAL, Vladimír. Diagnostika : pedagogickopsychologická diagnostika žáka s úvodem do diagnostické aplikace statistiky. 2. vydání. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2002, 199 stran. ISBN 8024603195. info
  • UŽDIL, Jaromír. Čáry, klikyháky, paňáci a auta : výtvarný projev a psychický život dítěte. 5., přeprac. a dopl. vyd.,. Praha: Portál, 2002, 125 s. ISBN 8071785997. info
  • PETERSON, Linda Whitney and Milton Edward HARDIN. Děti v tísni : příručka pro screening dětských kreseb. Vyd. 1. Praha: Triton, 2002, 141 s. ISBN 8072542370. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, working with diagnostics methods (tests), group discussion
Assessment methods
Assignment (administration of diagnostic method, results writing), exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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