Essential of testing and assesment : a practical guide for counselors, social workers, and psychotherapists by Edward S. Nuekrug and R. Charles Fawcett.

Index included

History and current professional issues: History of testing and assessment; Ethical, legal, and professional issues in Assessment -- Test worthiness and test statistics: Test worthness, validity, reliability, and practicality, and cross-cultural fairness; 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; assessment of intelligence; Career and occupational assessment, interest inventories, multiple aptitude, and special aptitude tests; Cinaial assessment, objective and projective personality tests; Informal assessment, observation, rating scales, classification methods, and records and personal documents -- Diagnosis and writing the assessment report: Diagnosis in the assessment process; Assessment report process, the interview, assessment techniques, environmental assessment, and the airport -- Appendixes: Websites of codes of ethics of select mental health professional associations; Code of fair testing practices in education; Supplemental statistical equations; Converting percentiles from Z scores; Assessment report -- Glossary.

Designed specifically for the future or practicing helping professional, [this text] offers [an] overview of the foundational principles of testing and assessment. [It] provides all the material suggested by accrediting bodies for a basic assessment course and offers insight into an array of important topics, including: the history of assessment and assessment instruments; the complex ethical, legal, and professional issues faced by those who assess others; the means and methods by which tests are created, validated, scored, and interpreted, including basic test statistics ... basic "how-to's" for making a diagnosis and writing a comprehensive test report. Your will also find stories and vignettes that illuminate your understanding of the topics and help you apply key concepts to your practice. -Back cover.