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Abstract
One of the major roles of a school psychologist is psychoeducational testing and the preparation of psychoeducational reports. Unfortunately, parents often have difficulty understanding psychoeducational reports. This difficulty might be ameliorated by supplementing psychoeducational reports with graphs. This hypothesis was tested with 144 parents who were asked to read a psychoeducational report either with or without supplemental bar graphs and then to complete recall and satisfaction measures. Parents who read a report with graphs recalled significantly more information correctly than did parents who read a report without graphs. Parents who read a report with graphs also expressed greater satisfaction than parents who read a report without graphs. Regardless of the type of report, parents with a college degree performed better on the recall measure than parents without a college degree.
This article is based on the thesis of the first author that was supervised by the second author. The authors are grateful to Professors James McAfee, Suet-ling Pong, and Barbara Schaefer for their guidance.
Notes
1. Copies of the psychoeducational report, recall measure, and satisfaction measure are available at http://www.public.asu.edu/~mwwatkin/Watkins3.html.