PRACTICUM HOURS IN SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY DOCTORAL PROGRAMS

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PRACTICUM HOURS IN SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY DOCTORAL
PROGRAMS
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Why?

• Practicum Subcommittee

• Scuttlebutt

• A I P

APPIC Induced Panic

• Spontaneous Memory Recovery

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Two Surveys-12 Years Apart

• 1994 and 2006

• Differences
• 1994 Mail Survey
• 2006 Internet Survey

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Similarities

• Both surveyed practicum hours in school
  psychology
• Both had

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Lousy Response Rates!!!
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CONCLUSIONS
Dont even bother trying to survey school
psychology professors!
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1994 Survey Data
N 31
Mean 377.40
SD 233.3
Range 50-1200
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1200
611
144
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2006 Internet Survey
N 40
Mean 1010
Median 1000
SD 357
Range 450-1800
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SD
Mean
SD
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N U M B E R
HOURS
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N U M B E R
HOURS
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Summary Numbers

• 1994
• N 31
• Mean 377.4
• SD 233.3
• Range 50-1200

• 2006
• N 40
• Mean 1009.7
• SD 356.79
• Range 400-1800

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Conclusions, Questions, and Issues
There has been inflation in minimally required
hours.
Many/most students do more than the minimum.
How much is enough?
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Conclusions, Questions, and Issues

• What is practicum anyway?
• Formal course only
• What about embedded practica?
• Direct contact only
• What about indirect service?