Current test use with children and youth, principally by school or educational psychologists, is reviewed. Issues discussed include the status of the specialty of school psychology, a brief history of educational and psychological testing, traditional ...

Models underlying diagnostic assessment of learning disabilities are seldom explained and discussed. More often too, those assessments are offered without empirical support. The goal of the current paper is to reflect on the diagnostic assessment of ...

Psychological testing has been undergoing major changes. One of the main changes is the transition from the use of classical to modern test models and methods in test development. The purposes of this paper are to describe the shortcomings of classical ...

A central methodological aspect of cross-cultural assessment is the interpretability of intergroup differences: Do scores obtained by subjects from different cultural groups have the same psychological meaning? Equivalence (or the absence of bias) is ...

In a testing service system (TSS) the activities that play a role in educational and psychological assessment are integrated and, as far as possible, computerized. Such systems will be the basis for test design, administration, analysis, and reporting in ...

Policy-makers in many nations of the world are involved in educational reforms. In order to make effective educational decisions for the 21st century, policy-makers need information of a wide variety of kinds, for example, comparative performance data and ...