Essentials of testing and assessment : a practical guide for counselors, social workers, and psychologists / Edward S. Neukrug and R. Charles Fawcett.

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 educating 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.