PAR assessment related iPhone App.

Description from PAR web page.

The PAR Assessment Toolkit was created to provide assistance to psychologists, mental health workers, and anyone else who administers standardized assessments. This toolkit features several helpful tools such as:

• Normal curve - an illustration of a standard bell curve is included for use in discussion with patients or other professionals
• Conversion chart - included to provide an error-free means of converting between t-scores, z-scores, percentiles, and standard score.
• Age Calculator - save valuable time while guaranteeing accuracy with the age calculator. Just input the individual’s date of birth and receive their age in years, months, days.
• Mental Age - input an individual’s current age and IQ score and receive their mental age.
• Stopwatch - included is a stopwatch that assists monitoring timed assessments or performance tasks by counting up or counting down.
• Date Calculator - many states and school districts have laws mandating how many days a psychologist has before a referral must be seen. Calculate the end date and never worry about incompliance through miscalculation.

These useful tools will save you time and effort, and in the end empower you to focus your time and energy on more important details. We have provided this app free of charge to further assist our Customers as well as continue our mission of Creating Connections. Changing Lives.

Look for future applications from PAR to assist your professional career in assessment.

Web: www.parinc.com

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WMF Press: Dean-Woodcock Neuropsych Report Software

The Woodcock-Munoz Foundation (WMF) Press has just made its first publication--- a piece of neuropsychological assessment report software.

The Dean-Woodcock Neuropsychological Report is a scoring and interpretive program that assists qualified evaluators and service providers in creating neuropsychological reports based on test results from the Dean-Woodcock^™ Neuropsychological Battery^™, the Woodcock-Johnson^® III, and the Batería III NU Woodcock-Muñoz^®. Click here to be taken to the page, which also lists requirements necessary to download the software for free.

[Conflict of interest - I'm the Research Director for WMF and am also a coauthor of the Woodcock-Johnson III.

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Procrastinators clock - nifty idea

Thanks to the Download Squad for the FYI tip re: the interesing "procrastinators clock" software program. An interesting possible aid for those who are chronic procrastinators.

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Random tidbits from mind blogsphere 1-7-07

• Brain Injury blog reports that in today's Wall Street Journal there is a "scathing attack on insurance company attitudes on brain injury rehabilitation"
• Developing Intelligence has a review of the 2nd Edition of Mark Johnson's Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
• Eide Neurolearning blog has a post, with link to the journal article, re: a recent study that points out the obvious to those who work with kids with reading disabilities....namely, reading interventions need to be matched to the needs of those with reading disorders (they are not a homogeneous group)
• Gene Expression reports that Dr. Camilla Benbow, a well-established individual differences/intelligence scholar, has been appointed to the National Science Board. Kudos.
• Thanks to Mind Hacks for the FYI post regarding recent work in augmented cognition.
  
• OMG!!!!!!!!! Having a strong preference for visual methods for presenting information (I'm often called Dr. Gv by some of my friends), I was blown over by the "Periodic Table of Visualization Methods." Check it out. Simply place your cursor over each "element" and see a nice visual picture/explanation of the data visualization method. This reminds me of the "Table of Human Cognitive Elements" that I once developed. I think I need to revisit that HCA project.
  

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Mind mapping software - improve learning and knowledge organization

I've been a heavy user of Mind Manager's mind map software for a couple of years. I LOVE it. It allows me to organize information and my thoughts and ideas in a manner that seems to resemble the Gv (visual-spatial) way I think. Over on the Pegasus Book Club blog is a very positive review and description of this powerful piece of software.

I give it three thumbs up :)

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CHC teaching tools - Gv game example

One of my favorite sites for keeping abreast of new software and downloads is the Download Squad. Almost evey day they post "today's time-waster" which features a new game.

I've now realized that some of these on-line games might serve as interesting tools for presenting examples of CHC abilities to educators, students, parents and others.....in lieu of showing test items. Today they poasted a note about Flash Tangrams, a version of a game many of us played as kids. IMHO it would make a decent example of Gv tests/tasks that require SR (Spatial Relations)/Vz (Vizualization).

The other day I posted a note about another example of a possible measure of verbal planning.

Keywords: Gv CHC teaching tool planning