Essentials of testing and assessment : a practical guide for counselors, social worders, and psychologists

Comprehensive and easy to read, Neukrug and Fawcett's ESSENTIALS OF TESTING AND ASSESSMENT: A PRACTICAL GUIDE, 2e introduces learners to the concepts and applications of assessment and testing. Case vignettes, samples of real tests, and additional activities and exercises increase understanding and reduce student anxiety.

Part I History And Current Professional Issues

1 History of Testing and Assessment

2 Ethical, Legal and Professional Issues in Assessment

Part II Test Worthiness And Test Statistics

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

Part III Commonly -Used Assessment Techniques

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

Part IV Diagnosis And Writing The Assessment Report

11 Diagnosis in the Assessment Process

12 The Assessment Report Process: The Interview, Assessment Techniques, Environmental Assessment, and the Report

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