Online Psychoeducational Assessments

There are a handful of companies that are currently marketing online psychoeducational assessments to school districts within California. Some of these companies are training “aides” who sit next to the students during these online assessment processes. The California Association of School Psychologists (CASP) has concerns about this practice.
A shortage of school psychologists currently exists in California and throughout most of the nation. This shortage of available school psychologists is one of the reasons why companies are beginning to offer alternative solutions, such as online assessment for students. While this approach could help to meet compliance issues regarding assessment and special education law during this shortage of qualified school psychologists, this method is also fraught with many pitfalls.

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