Department of Leadership, Technology, and Human Development

School Psychology

School Psychology Educational Specialist Program—75 hours

Program Intent: This program provides training to serve children and adolescents with learning, behavioral, or emotional problems in educational settings. After successful completion of 36 hours of course work and passing a written comprehensive examination, students may be awarded an interim M.Ed. degree and continue on in the program to complete the remaining requirement of the Ed.S. degree. The 36 hours required for the interim M.Ed. include the following courses: Professional Education Core Requirements (6 hrs), Specific Requirements (27 hrs), and EDUR 7130 (3 hrs). Professional entry-level in the field of School Psychology requires Professional Level Six (S-6) Certification which is acquired after successful completion of the prescribed Ed.S. Program of Study and a passing score on the GACE examination in School Psychology.

Admission Requirements

Regular

1. Complete requirements for a bachelor's degree in the social sciences or in education from a regionally accredited institution.
2. Present a cumulative 3.00 (4.0 scale) or higher GPA on all undergraduate and graduate work (if any) combined.
3. Present official report of scores on the Miller Analogies Test (MAT) or the verbal, quantitative and analytical writing sections of the Graduate Records Examination (GRE).
4. Submit a personal statement of purpose that includes reasons for selecting school psychology as a career, self evaluation of personal qualities that would be brought into the program, and the impacts the applicant believes school psychologists should have on the lives of children.
5. Submit three letters of recommendation from persons well acquainted with the applicant's academic and/or professional performance.
6. Submit a passing score on the GACE Basic Skills Assessment exam or be exempt by acceptable SAT, ACT, or GRE scores.
7. Submit a completed "Disclosure and Affirmation Form" that addresses misconduct disclosure, criminal background check, the Code of Ethics for Educators, and tort liability insurance. Students who are accepted into the program must agree to abide by the ethical principles established by the National Association of School Psychologists. Documentation of professional liability insurance must be submitted to the assigned advisor at the beginning of the first semester.

Provisional

Applicants may be approved for provisional admission based on the quality of the admission material presented. Provisional students must earn grades of "B" or higher in their first nine (9) hours of course work after admission and meet any other stipulations outlined by the department to be converted to regular status.

Prerequisite

SPED 6130 - Introduction to Special Education (3)

EDUC 7130 - Curriculum Theories (3) OR READ 7131 Approaches to Reading Instruction (3)
EDUF 7130 - Learning Theories and Applications (3)

COUN 7332 - Theories of Counseling (3)
COUN 7333 - Models and Techniques of Counseling (3)
COUN 7338 - Life-Span Development (3)
ESPY 7130 - Professional School Psychology (3)
ESPY 7131 - Behavioral Interventions (3)
ESPY 7132 - Classroom-based Performance and Psychometrics (3)
ESPY 7133 - Implications of Child Psychopathology in Schools (3)
ESPY 7230 - Developmental Diagnosis in Early Childhood (3)
ITEC 7430 - Instructional Design (3)

EDUR 7130 - Educational Research (3)
EDUR 8131 - Educational Statistics I (3)
EDUR 8434 - Field-based Educational Research (3) *
ESPY 8839 - Action Research in School Psychology (3)

ESPY 8130 - Curriculum-based Assessment and Response-to-Intervention (3)
ESPY 8131 - Individual Intellectual Assessment (3)
ESPY 8132 - Addressing Diversity in School-based Conceptualization (3)
ESPY 8133 - Personality and Behavioral Assessment in the Schools (3)
ESPY 8135 - Crisis Intervention and Prevention (3)
ESPY 8230 - Consulting in Educational Settings (3)
ESPY 8631 - Seminar in School Psychology (3)

ESPY 8737 - Practicum in School Psychology (3)
ESPY 8738 - School Psychology Internship I (3)
ESPY 8739 - School Psychology Internship II (3)

OTHER PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

• Successful completion of 36 hours and written School Psychology Comprehensive exam are required to obtain the interim M.Ed. degree. Students may only take this exam twice and must pass it to receive the M.Ed. degree and to continue on in the program.
• Successful completion of Ed.S. Comprehensive Exit Examination; involves constituting a three-faculty advisory committee to guide field study, and requires the completion and oral presentation of a major field-based research paper.
• Must successfully complete assessments identified at each program transition point.
• Must successfully complete key assessments in the program.

NOTE: Successful completion of GACE Examination required for S-6 Certification in School Psychology.

*This course requires approval of a research topic before entering the class.

Last Modified  July 24, 2007