Essentials of testing and assessment : a practical guide to counselors, social workers, and psychologists

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 --

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

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