Essentials of testing and assessment : a practical guide for counselors, social workers and psychologists
This undergraduate textbook examines how formal and informal tests are created, scored, and interpreted by mental health professionals when evaluating clients, and surveys the various techniques commonly used for assessing educational ability, intelligence, career and occupational aptitude, and clin...
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| Language: | English |
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Australia ; Belmont, CA :
Thomson/Brooks/Cole ,
c2010
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| Edition: | 2nd ed |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. History of Testing and Assessment
- 2. Ethical, Legal, And Professional Issues In Assessment
- 3. Test Worthiness: Validity, Reliability, Practicality, and cross cultural fairness
- 4. Statistical Concepts: Making Meaning Out Of raw scores
- 5. Statistical concepts: Creating new scores to interpret test data
- 6. Assessment of educational Ability: Survey Battery, diagnostic, readiness, and cognitive ability tests
- 7. Intellectual and cognitive functioning: Intelligence testing and neuropsychological assessment
- 8. Career and Occupational Assessment: Interest inventories, multiple aptitude, and special aptitude tests
- 9. Clinical Assessment: Objective and Projective personality tests
- 10. Informal Assessment: Observation, Rating Scales, classification methods, environmental assessment, records and personal documents and performance-based assessment
- 11. Diagnosis in The Assessment Process
- 12. The Assessment Report Process: interviewing the client and writing the report