Product Description
The Principles and Practice of Psychological Assessment (3rd edition)
Author: A Moerdyk
Format: Physical Hardcopy
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.
Contents:
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Section 1 Basic theory of assessment
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Chapter 1 Introduction to why and how we assess
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Chapter 2 Observation
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Chapter 3 Developing a psychological measure
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Chapter 4 The history and development of psychological testing in South Africa
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Section 2 Introduction to psychometric theory
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Chapter 5 Reliability
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Chapter 6 Validity
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Chapter 7 Combining and interpreting assessment results
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Chapter 8 Fairness in assessment
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Chapter 9 Assessing in a multicultural context
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Chapter 10 Managing the assessment process
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Section 3 Domains of assessment
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Chapter 11 Assessing intelligence and ability
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Chapter 12 The assessment of personality
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Chapter 13 Assessing competence
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Chapter 14 Assessing integrity and honesty in the workplace
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Section 4 Assessment in the organisational context
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Chapter 15 Assessment in organisations
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Chapter 16 Assessment for career counselling
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Chapter 17 Interviewing
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Chapter 18 Assessment centres
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Section 5 The future of assessment in organisations Chapter 19 New developments in assessment
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Appendix 1 An overview and conceptual map of available tests Appendix 2 Calculating correlations Glossary of terms
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