Educational Evaluator - Psychometric Technician, part time

Mass General Brigham•Belmont, CA

14h•Hybrid

About The Position

The McLean Child and Adolescent Testing Clinic provides comprehensive neuropsychological, academic, and psychological evaluations to children and adolescents with learning disabilities, emotional disorders, and neurological issues. The clinic is staffed by neuropsychologists and has a post-doctoral training program. This part-time position (up to 10 hours per week) involves the administration of educational tests, attendance and presentation at weekly case conferences, scoring, interpreting, and writing up test results for each evaluation. Testing is performed on Tuesdays, with report writing done independently. The Psychometric Technician will assist in administering a wide range of standardized academic, educational, or neuropsychological tests to pediatric outpatients with a diverse range of acquired or developmental neurocognitive disorders. This role assists in the cognitive evaluation of patients by administering, scoring, and reporting the results of standardized tests of mental ability, as well as recording behavioral observations of patients during testing.

Requirements

B.A. in education or psychology-related field.
Familiarity with administration of educational tests such as the WIAT and the Woodcock Johnson.
Experience working with children and adolescents with ADHD, anxiety and mood-related difficulties.
Coursework on testing and assessment.
Basic computer skills to use a variety of electronic or online systems for communication, clinical and administrative purposes.
Strong interpersonal skills and ability to interact with other professional and administrative staff across multiple departments.
Obtain operant familiarity with practice procedures and policies regarding psychological assessment.
Good verbal, written and computer skills.
Excellent observational skills and the ability to record and convey those observations systematically and reliably through writing.
Ability to work without close supervision and to exercise independent judgment.
Ability to use logical reasoning for simple and complex problem solving.

Nice To Haves

Master’s level degree in education preferred.
Excel programming experience 0-1 year preferred.
Working with neurological and/or psychiatric patients 0-1 year preferred.

Responsibilities

Administer standardized neuropsychological tests that assess cognitive and behavioral functioning (including intelligence, attention/executive functions, memory, language, visuospatial/quantitative abilities, mood, and personality) to patients.
Observe patients during and after testing, record behavioral observations and report to psychologist any information that may affect the validity of test results.
Accurately score all tests per standardized methods.
Maintain an up-to-date and thorough knowledge of the scoring procedures for a wide variety of neuropsychological measures.
Create summary score sheets for each patient, detailing their performance by cognitive domain compared to the normative sample for each test.
Help establish and maintain an appropriate testing environment.
Enter scores and other data into a database as necessary.
Attend and present at weekly case conferences.
Score, interpret, and write up test results for each evaluation.