Field Research Examiners Needed Now for SSKAAT-3 Development!

Stoelting Co. and Dr. Shelley Watson (lead author) are pleased to announce the development of the Socio-Sexual Knowledge and Attitudes Assessment Tool – Third Edition (SSKAAT-3), a tool to assess the socio-sexual knowledge and attitudes of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The SSKAAT-3 is an update to the Socio-Sexual Knowledge and Attitudes Assessment Tool – Revised (SSKAAT-R), a widely used tool with well-regarded history and presence in the field. 

We are looking for clinicians who have experience administering the SSKAAT-R, the Tool for Assessment of Levels of Knowledge - Sexuality and Consent - Revised (TALK-SC-R), as well as the Leiter International Performance Scale - Third Edition (Leiter-3), and who work with individuals ages 16 years and up.  Training on the SSKAAT-3 will be provided.  For more information, please click the following link: SSKAAT-3 Field Research Information

If you are interested in participating as a field researcher, please complete and return this form:

 SSKAAT-3 Field Researcher Application Form

Other Opportunities for Field Research

Are you looking to use your clinical skills to help validate new assessments for future use?

As a publisher of psychological assessments, Stoelting continuously develops and updates tests and therapeutic products.  A necessary component in the process of test development is researching the test by administering it to actual individuals from the population for whom the test is intended, a process termed “field research.”  Field research is performed with field researchers, professionals, and clinicians who will typically be administering the test in the actual settings where the completed test will be administered.  Mimicking the testing environment helps improve the validity of the test for use in those settings where it is intended to be used.                                                                                                                                                    

As a field researcher or examiner, you will be administering the test and collecting data on individuals’ performance on the test, which you will communicate back to Stoelting, the publisher.  This is an important job, as future clinicians will be making judgments about and providing services to young children based on data that you’ve collected during this time.

Stoelting is only concerned with the item-level data!

Stoelting accepts applications to work as a Field Researcher on an ongoing basis.  We will then contact you as we have projects that arise that fit your qualifications.  Opportunities for field research may involve:

• Early childhood assessment
• Early childhood nonverbal assessment (for children with deafness or other language issues)

Preferred qualifications (with exceptions made) to participate as a field researcher are:

• Experience in education or the assessment of children/adults with and without disabilities
• Master’s degree or above in special education, school psychology, childhood/exceptional education, clinical, or counseling psychology, neuropsychology, educational assessment
• Training in psychometrics, assessment, and test-subject matter

We welcome individuals who possess a Doctorate in a related field to work independently, and/or to provide supervision to graduate students or other professionals.

Stoelting will provide each field researcher with a comprehensive training package.  Training packages vary based on the test in field research.

Stoelting Co. will reimburse the examiner for each completed protocol.  Exact payment will depend on factors, including examiner background, test, and case characteristics.  Stoelting will also compensate participants to assist in your recruitment efforts.

Some field researchers who have experience testing with other instruments than those being validated may be asked to administer an additional test in conjunction with the assessment being researched.  Compensation will also be provided to examiners and participants for additional tests administered.

All field researchers who complete the project will be cited in the acknowledgment section of the Manual for the assessment being researched.

Stoelting will provide the necessary materials to field researchers needed to complete the project.  These materials include all testing materials, necessary forms for obtaining subject and site consent, demographic information, parent information, and field researcher and subject/site reimbursement forms.  

• You do NOT need to score the protocols, but please tally responses
• You do NOT need to write clinical reports

If you would like to participate, please complete the application obtainable in the above link and indicate which types of individuals you have access to test.

Click here for Field Researcher Application

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