As the following article suggests, individual personality testing is employed by experienced clinicians who work with real people. Regretfully current psychology trainees receive less training in individual personality testing. The author identifies several influences for this trend. Perhaps most important, managed care does not favor what is perceived as “time-consuming” when a Read more…
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The “situational test” is generally viewed as the Gold Standard for psychological assessment. As a general rule, the closer a test to the actual behavior to be predicted, the more accurate is extrapolation from the test. As a general rule, these are “situational” tests. For example, to predict how an Read more…
Among the varieties of tests available for psychological diagnosis, treatment planning, and evaluation, changes in government, agency, and organizational policies favor the use of true-false, multiple choice, and rating scale “outcomes” tests. The shift toward forced-choice, self-report testing appears to have the blessing of research academicians, HMOs, and Federal Agencies. Read more…
Performance-based tests possess a long history in applied psychology. Performance tests first advanced the science of psychology in brass instrument laboratories, ability, and intelligence testing. Although performance testing varied over a wide range of tasks, a common denominator was the presence of an independent recorder, usually other than the person, Read more…