Introduction to Psychological Assessment in the South African context third edition is an introductory text on measuring and assessing human behaviour within a complex multi-cultural environment. It offers a practical guide to the development of culturally appropriate measures and the application of assessment measures, as well as the interpretation and reporting of results. The book provides advice with regard to assessing young children and disabled individuals and also discusses the various contexts in which psychological measures are used, including education, counselling, the psycholegal domain, and research.

Key Features

• Checking your progress questions and self assessment questions and answers that enable students to ascertain the accuracy of their understanding
• Critical thinking exercises, which present students with typical assessment scenarios to develop their reasoning skills
• Local, relevant examples and case studies, which allow students to apply psychological assessment principles to measure intelligence
• Further information on basic concepts such as validity and reliability, which are covered in separate chapters
• Increased content on ethical considerations, bias and fairness, especially in terms of the language of assessment
• A focus on multicultural test development and use.

1. An overview of assessment: Definition and scope
2. Psychological assessment: A brief retrospective overview
3. Basic measurement and scaling concepts
4. Reliability: Basic concepts and measures
5. Validity: Basic concepts and measures
6. Developing a measure
7. Cross cultural test adaptation and translation
8. The practice of psychological assessment: controlling the use of measures, competing values, and ethical practice standards
9. Administering psychological assessment measures
10. Assessment of cognitive functioning
11. Measures of affective behaviour, adjustment and well-being
12. Personality assessment
13. Career counselling assessment
14. Computer-based and Internet-delivered assessment
15. The use of assessment measures in various applied contexts
16. Interpreting and reporting assessment results
17. Factors affecting assessment results
18. What the future holds for psychological assessment