Appraisal Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals

by Drummond, Robert J.

• ISBN13: 9780023306778
• ISBN10: 0023306777
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-02-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

The leading book in appraisal for counselors, this book is designed to help current and future workers in the helping professions become better consumers of psychological and educational tests and assessment procedures. Provides guidance on how and when to use tests in different environments with different populations. Provides practical suggestions on basic procedures such as test selection, administration, and reporting. Addresses the role of the computer in assessment including on-line testing, adaptive testing, computerized interpretation of test results, and websites as sources of information. An ideal book for assessment in counseling, psychological testing, and tests and measurement.

Table of Contents

Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Appraisal	p. 1
Legal and Ethical Concerns and Issues in Testing	p. 15
Statistical Concepts	p. 32
Measurement Concepts	p. 55
Process and Procedures of Testing	p. 80
Ability and Intelligence Testing	p. 123
Aptitude Testing	p. 153
Achievement Testing and Alternate Forms of Assessment	p. 169
Career and Employment Testing	p. 208
Personality Testing	p. 238
Clinical Assessment	p. 262
Assessment of Development	p. 283
Environmental Assessment	p. 297
The Computer in Assessment	p. 323
Working With Diverse Populations	p. 338
Assessment Issues in Education	p. 364
Communicating Test Results	p. 389
Tests	p. 415
Test Publishers and Distributors	p. 429
Glossary	p. 431
References	p. 439
Name Index	p. 453
Subject Index	p. 457
Test Index	p. 465
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