By Thomas J. Kampwirth, Ph.D., California State University Long Beach & Brian Leung, Ph.D., Loyola Marymount University
The CASP office periodically hears concerns about interns in school psychology being hired by districts to do "testing" only. School psychologists who have registered these concerns believe this practice undermines their efforts to provide comprehensive services to their schools by portraying some of their peers (the interns) being used only as administrators of (probably, though not necessarily) norm-based instruments.
Further explication of this issue suggests one or both of the following:
1) Administrators who are constructing these testing-only roles for interns may be implementing a point of view that school psychologists should be used primarily as psychometricians (and as IEP team members, as appropriate), and their other
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