Psychological Testing and Assessment

The pursuit toward understanding and quantifying a person's cognitive ability and intelligence has been a drive of the field of psychology since well before the discipline was founded, reaching as far back as 3,000 years ago in ancient ChinaOakland, Thomas , Poortinga, Ype H. , Schlegel, Justin and Hambleton, Ronald K.(2001) 'International Test Commission: Its History, Current Status, and Future Directions', International Journal of Testing, 1: 1, 3 — 32. However, it wasn't until the 1890s that James McKeen Cattel coined the term "mental testing"Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia (2021, May 21). James McKeen Cattell. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-McKeen-Cattell, and then in 1905, Alfred Binet, Victor Henri, and Théodore Simon published the Binet-Simon test, the first standardized intelligence test created to evaluate school children's cognitive ability in an effort to help target children with special needs.Binet, A., & Simon, T. (1916). The development of intelligence in children (the binet-simon scale). https://doi.org/10.1037/11069-000
The field has come a long way since then, and the following (nonexhaustive) list includes a number of assessments that psychologists have available to use for diagnostic and clinical purposes:
*Boston Naming Test (BNT)
*Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS)
*Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
*Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)
*NEPSY-II
*Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (RCFT or "The Rey")
*Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, 4th edition (WAIS-IV)
*Wechsler Individual Assessment Test, 4th edition (WIAT-4)
*Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, 5th edition (WISC-V)
*Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS)
====Bias and Equity in Assessment====
It is important that psychologists, clinicians, therapists, and other mental health professionals keep in mind that the field's current use of the above, existing standardized cognition tests carries the risk of perpetuating bias and inequity among various cultures and experiences of examinees. To that end, caution and awareness should be applied where necessary and relevant in order to prevent examinees from not receiving accurate scores and results from these assessments.https://www.pearsonassessments.com/professional-assessments/blog-webinars/webinars/2021/01/equity-in-psychological-testing--a-historical-perspective.html Pearson, one of the industries leading assessment publishers, is helping to facilitate conversations around assessment bias and equity through a webinar series called Equity in Psychological Testing. 
Category:Psychological Testing
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