Essentials of testing and assessment

a practical guide for counselors, social workers, and psychologists

2nd ed. (Inter. ed.)
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Essentials of testing and assessment

a practical guide for counselors, social workers, and psychologists

2nd ed. (Inter. ed.)
  • 3 Want to read

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 clinical issues.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
316

Book Details


Table of Contents

History and current professional issues: History of Testing and Assessment
Ethical, Legal, And Professional Issues In Assessment
Test Worthiness: Validity, Reliability, Practicality, and cross cultural fairness
Statistical Concepts: Making Meaning Out Of raw scores
Creating new scores to interpret test data
Educational Assessment of Ability: Survey Battery, diagnostic, readiness, and cognitive ability tests
Assessment of Intelligence
Career and Occupational Assessment: Interest inventories, multiple aptitude, and special aptitude tests
Clinical Assessment: Objective and Projective personality tests
Informal Assessment: Observation, Rating Scales, classification methods, and records and personal documents
Diagnosis in The Assessment Process
The Assessment Report Process: The Interview, assessment techniques, environmental assessment, and the report.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Australia, Belmont, CA

Classifications

Library of Congress
BF431 .N48 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 316 p. :
Number of pages
316

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24878967M
ISBN 10
1439037930, 0495604585
ISBN 13
9781439037935, 9780495604587
LCCN
2008942957
OCLC/WorldCat
361476051

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL15973664W

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