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Essentials of Testing and Assessment: A Practical Guide for Counselors, Social Workers, and Psychologists, Enhanced

Author(s): Edward S. Neukrug | R. Charles Fawcett

ISBN: 9789355739018

3rd Edition

Copyright: 2020

India Release: 2023

₹635

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 368

Trim Size: 241 x 181 mm

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Comprehensive and easy to read, Neukrug and Fawcett's ESSENTIALS OF TESTING AND ASSESSMENT: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR COUNSELORS, SOICAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS, ENHANCED, 3rd Edition, introduces learners to the concepts and applications of assessment and testing. Case vignettes, samples of real tests, and additional activities and exercises increase understanding.

  • Thought-provoking cases, vignettes, and real-life exercises engage students by providing opportunities for hands-on practice.
  • The book guides students step-by-step through the increasingly complex process of gathering information about clients, and suggests specific ways of writing effective test reports.
  • Text illustrations, figures, and examples of test reports and interview outlines help students apply the concepts presented in the chapters.
  • Down-to-earth, easy-to-understand writing clearly explains the use of test statistics and how to apply them to the assessment process.
  • Neukrug and Fawcett devote individual chapters to commonly used assessment techniques in educational ability, intelligence testing, career and occupational assessment, and clinical assessment, with each chapter highlighting the role of the helper in assessment procedures and stressing the importance of sensitivity when assessing any person.
  • 2019 Update: Chapter 2 in the Enhanced Edition, Ethical, Legal and Professional Issues in Assessment, includes updated ethical and professional issues.
  • Enhanced 3rd edition has updated research, assessment and tests.
  • 2019 Update: Section III, Commonly Used Assessment Techniques (Chapters 8, 9, 10, 11), in the Enhanced Edition, have been updated to include the most current version of the tests and assessments procedures being described. Newer instruments were added to ensure that the most current information is included in the text.

SECTION I: UNDERSTANDING THE ASSESSMENT PROCESS: HISTORY, ETHICAL AND PROFESSIONAL ISSUES, DIAGNOSIS, AND THE ASSESSMENT REPORT

1. History of Testing and Assessment

2. Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Assessment

3. Diagnosis in the Assessment Process

4. The Assessment Report Process: Interviewing the Client and Writing the Report

SECTION II: TEST WORTHINESS AND TEST STATISTICS

5. Test Worthiness: Validity, Reliability, Cross-Cultural Fairness, and Practicality

6. Statistical Concepts: Making Meaning Out of Raw Scores

7. Statistical Concepts: Creating New Scores to Interpret Test Data

SECTION III: COMMONLY USED ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES

8. Assessment of Educational Ability: Survey Battery, Diagnostic, Readiness, and Cognitive Ability Tests (Updated).

9. Intellectual and Cognitive Functioning: Intelligence Testing and Neuropsychological Assessment (Updated).

10. Career and Occupational Assessment: Interest Inventories, Multiple Aptitude, and Special Aptitude Tests (Updated).

11. Clinical Assessment: Objective and Projective Personality Tests (Updated).

12. Informal Assessment: Observation, Rating Scales, Classification Methods, Environmental Assessments, Records and Personal Documents, and Performance-Based Assessment.

Edward S. Neukrug

Edward S. Neukrug is the Professor of Counseling at Old Dominion University.

 

Charles Fawcett

Charles Fawcett is a doctoral student at the University of Virginia.

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