ABSTRACT
Despite the fact that the educational psychologist is often seen as one of the key personnel in the special education system, there seems to be little agreement as to what the job involves. Teachers may have one idea, parents another, and the educational psychologists themselves are by no means unanimous either about what they do or about what they should be doing. Neither do they share a common background of training or experience. The group of educational psychologists who took part in the following discussion have come to their jobs via very different routes, and they differ in their attitudes towards the value of IQ testing, the nature of any alternatives, and the relevance of their training to their job.
