Assessment is an important part of any psychologist’s
role and the outcome can have consequences, positive and negative, for the
person being assessed. The principles and practice of psychological
assessment is a guide to drawing up, administering and interpreting
assessment procedures, and judging whether the techniques used are
theoretically and procedurally sound. It also takes a special look at
assessment from an organisational perspective, because although many of the
technical and scientific issues with respect to psychological assessment are
common to all areas of applied psychology, there are numerous issues and
applications that are unique to the organisational context.
The principles and practice of psychological assessment is more of a “how to” than a critical text, but includes some background information and in-depth theorising for more problematic issues. A glossary of terms and a unique cognitive map of psychological tests are provided. Changes in this third edition include a new chapter on the history of assessment in South Africa, and the dominant narrative in some quarters that industrial psychologists set out deliberately to ensure the failure of some segments of the workforce.
The principles and practice of psychological
assessment is aimed at third year and honours
students of psychology and industrial psychology as well as practitioners.
Section 1 Basic theory of
assessment
Chapter 1 Introduction to why and
how we assess
Chapter 2 Observation
Chapter 3 Developing a
psychological measure
Chapter 4 The history and
development of psychological testing in South Africa
Section 2 Introduction to
psychometric theory
Chapter 5 Reliability
Chapter 6 Validity
Chapter 7 Combining and
interpreting assessment results
Chapter 8 Fairness in assessment
Chapter 9 Assessing in a
multicultural context
Chapter 10 Managing the assessment
process
Section 3 Domains of assessment
Chapter 11 Assessing intelligence
and ability
Chapter 12 The assessment of
personality
Chapter 13 Assessing competence
Chapter 14 Assessing integrity and
honesty in the workplace
Section 4 Assessment in the
organisational context
Chapter 15 Assessment in
organisations
Chapter 16 Assessment for career
counselling
Chapter 17 Interviewing
Chapter 18 Assessment centres
Section 5 The future of assessment
in organisations
Chapter 19 New developments in
assessment
Appendix 1 An overview and
conceptual map of available tests
Appendix 2 Calculating
correlations
Glossary of terms
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