Neukrug and Fawcett's ESSENTIALS OF TESTING AND ASSESSMENT: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR COUNSELORS, SOICAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS, ENHANCED, 3rd Edition, offers a comprehensive and easy-to-read introduction to the concepts and applications of assessment and testing. Case vignettes, samples of real tests, and additional activities and exercises help you grasp and understand the material.

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

Neukrug, Edward S., Fawcett, R. Charles

CENGAGE Learning Custom Publishing

Australia: Cengage Learning

Brooks/Cole

United States, United States of America

Third edition, Stanford, CT, 2020

3rd edition, Australia, 2014

3, 2019-01-01

2013

xxi, 346 pages : 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
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

Introduces learners to the concepts and applications of assessment and testing. This book features case vignettes, samples of real tests, and additional activities and exercises to increase understanding.

2023-06-28