Competency mandate: a model for teaching skills in the administration of the WAIS-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.
D003479:Curriculum; D004500:Education, Graduate; D006801:Humans; D011361:Professional Competence / Q000592:standards*; D011586:Psychology, Clinical / Q000193:education*; D014888:Wechsler Scales