TY  - BOOK
AU  - Neukrug, Ed.
AU  - Fawcett, R. Charles.
ED  - 
ED  - 
ED  - 
ED  - 
TI  - : a practical guide to counselors, social workers, and psychologists 
SN  - 9781285454245 (paperback)
SN  - 2
PY  - 2014///46
CY  - Australia
PB  - Cengage Learning
KW  - 
KW  - 2
KW  - 0
KW  - 6
KW  - 20
KW  - Testing.;Methodology
KW  - Ability;Behavioral assessment.;Psychology;Counseling
N1  - 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; 5
ER  -