Essentials of testing and assessment : a practical guide to counselors, social workers, and psychologists / [print]
by Edward S. Neukrug, R. Charles Fawcett.
- third edition.
- Australia : Brooks/Cole, (c)2014.
- xxi, 346 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Appendix A. Websites of codes of ethics of select mental health professional associations Appendix B. Assessment sections of ACA's and APA's Codes of Ethics Appendix C. Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education Appendix D. Sample assessment report Supplemental statistical equations Appendix F. Converting percentiles from z-scores. Understanding the assessment process : history, ethical and professional issues, diagnosis, and the assessment report. History of testing and assessment Ethical, legal, and professional issues in assessment Diagnosis in the assessment process The assessment report process : interviewing the client and writing the report Test worthiness and test statistics. Test worthiness : validity, reliability, cross-cultural fairness, and practicality Statistical concepts : making meaning out of raw scores Statistical concepts : creating new scores to interpret test data Commonly used assessment techniques. Assessment of educational ability : survey battery, diagnostic, readiness, and cognitive ability tests Intellectual and cognitive functioning : intelligence testing and neuropsychological assessment 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, environmental assessment, records and personal documents, and performance-based assessment.