Learning objective: To be comfortable with using PATSy

TASKS/OBJECTIVES (Tick when completed)

Can you get into PATSy?

• check machine is switched on
• check headphones available & plugged in
• check headphones (or speaker if no headphones) are working
• activate the browser (Netscape)
• type in URL http://www.patsy.ac.uk/
• When it asks for username. Type your own username in
• For the password, use your own password (note: both are CaSe-SeNsItIvE).

Familiarise yourself with PATSy's front page

• Read "confidentiality and terms of use agreement"
• "A simple walk-through of the PATSy system, with no passwords required.".
• Look in "Dyslexia" to access the dyslexia domain.

Can you see the dyslexia domain?

• Enter at Student level
• Select access type "Information Only"
• Go to participants
• Select WS
• View the videos of WS (Movie links)
• Click on "Back" on browser toolbar
• Read WS's family questionnaire
• Read "About PATSy tests"
• View test data
• Click on "Free Writing Test at age 9:10
• Click on "Back" on browser toolbar
• Click on "McDougall et al Rhyme Oddity Task" at age 11:05
• Read the summary for this test.
• Click on the "Participant WS Page" link at the top or bottom of the page
• View "Interesting features about this participant"
• View "Publications relevant to this participant"
• View "Contributors"

Now try to access PATSy in a different mode - "Assessment Practise"?

• Return to the home page and enter the dyslexia site as a student as before.
• On the "PATSy user Options" page, select "assessment practice"
• Explore the participant WS in the new mode.
• How does this differ from "Information only" access?
• Select "Go to participants" for the next exercise

Can you administer the GNWRT to WS and use the PATSy log?

• Select WS again
• Select "Test Data"
• Select "Graded Nonword Reading Test" at age 9:10.
• Select "About this test"
• Select "norms"
• Administer the test to WS using your own copy of the test and scrolling through the record of his responses.
• Select "Add to log"
• Type in your answers about his performance on the GNWRT
• Now you MUST "Submit" to SAVE your work. If you forget, you will lose all your work.
• Now select "View log" to read what you have written

Can you exit PATSy in a responsible way?

• Select "PATSy Dyslexia Home" (at bottom)
• Go to "File" on the top menu of the Web page
• Select "Exit" which quits the browser
• Select "Start" in the left bottom corner of the page.
• Select "Log Off."
• Select "yes" when it asks if you want to log off.
• This procedure is very important to stop anyone else interacting with PATSy as YOU.

Can you SHUT DOWN?

Go to "Start" and then select "Shut down"

If anything is unclear, please inform your tutor/lecturer.