The ITC International Handbook of Testing and Assessment

During the last several years social scientists have increasingly recognized the impact of globalization on research and practice. It is imperative that psychology as a field be cognizant of this ongoing shift and that psychologists begin to integrate their various models, theories, and perspectives into a global curriculum.

Sponsored by the International Testing Commission, The ITC International Handbook of Testing and Assessment is dedicated to the advancement of theory, research, and practice in the area of international testing and assessment in psychology, education, counseling, organizational behavior, human resource management, and related disciplines. Bringing together international contributors from a range of disciplines, each chapter provides a review of testing and assessment research and practices around the world as well as a discussion of conceptual and methodological challenges to help advance the field. As The ITC International Handbook of Testing and Assessment, it also provides a historical perspective of international testing, the development of the ITC, and its guidelines. Recognizing that cultural and international contexts are essential to a true and accurate psychology, the authors describe how cultural, economic, political, and social factors in different countries frame the science and practice of testing and assessment. The ITC International Handbook of Testing and Assessment is a must-have resource for testing professionals and graduate students from psychology and related disciplines.

Dr. Frederick Leong is Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Michigan State University. He is affiliated with the Industrial/Organizational and Clinical Psychology programs and also serves as the Director of the Consortium for Multicultural Psychology Research at MSU. He is Past President of the Asian American Psychological Association and the Society for the Study of Culture, Race and Ethnicity (Division 45 of the American Psychological Association).

Dr. Dave Bartram was President of the ITC (2014-2016). He was Chief Psychologist for CEB (formerly SHL) until July 2016. Prior to his appointment with SHL in 1998, he was Dean of the Faculty of Science and the Environment, and Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hull. He currently holds an honorary Chair at the University of Pretoria.

Dr. Fanny Cheung is currently Vice-President (Research) and Choh-ming Li Professor of Psychology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is a former President of the ITC (2012-14), a past President of the Division of Clinical and Community Psychology of the International Association of Applied Psychology, and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science.

Dr. Kurt F. Geisinger is currently Director of the Buros Center on Testing and W. C. Meierhenry Distinguished University Professor at the University of Nebraska. He served two terms as council representative for the Division of Measurement, Evaluation and Statistics in the American Psychological Association, on APA's Board of Directors, and he also represented APA on the ISO's International Test Standards committee.

Dr. Dragos Iliescu is a Professor of Psychology with the University of Bucharest (Faculty for Psychology and Educational Sciences). He has been active as an academic and as a scientific consultant for the past 15 years, being involved in and having led important consultancy, assessment and test adaptation projects in Romania and other countries, mainly in Eastern Europe.

Section 1: Introduction and Overview

Chapter 1 Introduction
Frederick T.L. Leong, Dave Bartram, Fanny M. Cheung, Kurt F. Geisinger, and Dragos Iliescu

Chapter 2 History and Current Status of Testing across Cultures and Countries
Ype Poortinga and Eckhard Klieme

Chapter 3 Brief History of the International Test Commission
Thomas Oakland

Chapter 4 The ITC Guidelines: International Standards and Guidelines Relating to Tests and Testing
Dave Bartram and Ronald K. Hambleton

Section 2: Domains of Testing and Assessment

Chapter 5 Measuring and Understanding Intellectual and Other Abilities
Eleanor Armour-Thomas and Lisa Suzuki

Chapter 6 Measuring states and traits in motivation and emotion
Robert A. Roe and Ilke Inceoglu

Chapter 7 A look inside the toolbox: Measurement procedures in Implicit Social Cognition
Rebecca Weil

Chapter 8 Values
Shalom Schwartz and Jan Cieciuch

Chapter 9 Assessment of Career Interests
Frederick T.L. Leong, Weiqiao Fan, and Xiaolu Zhou

Chapter 10 Personality Assessment
Dragos Iliescu and Dan Ispas

Chapter 11 Psychopathology: Psychosis assessment and high-risk paradigms
Eduardo Fonseca Pedrero, Diane C. Gooding, Martin Debbané, and Jose Muñiz

Chapter 12 Neuropsychological Assessment
Anita M. Hubley and Maeve A. Mangaoang

Section 3: Settings

Chapter 13 Testing in Educational and Developmental Settings
Stephen G. Sireci and Fernanda Gándara

Chapter 14 Test Use in Work Settings
Dirk D. Steiner and Neal Schmitt

Chapter 15 Clinical Assessment in International Settings
James N. Butcher, Giselle A. Hass, and Jacob A. Paulsen

Chapter 16 Forensic Context Testing
Martin Fisher, Sarah Brown, Georgia Barnett, and Helen Wakeling

Chapter 17 Advances in Rehabilitation and Health Assessments
Elias Mpofu, Ros Madden, Richard Madden, David Kellett, David B. Peterson, W. Dent Gitchel, and Eun-Jeong Lee

Section 4: Special Populations

Chapter 18 Testing Individuals with Disabilities: An International Perspective
Kurt F. Geisinger and Carina McCormick

Chapter 19 Children and Adolescents
Diana Joyce-Beaulieu and Carmelo M. Callueng

Chapter 20 Taking Diversity into Account: Assessment of Older Adults
Meirong Kuang, Felix-Nicolai Müller, Yang Fang, Helene H. Fung, and Frieder R. Lang

Chapter 21 Language and Culture in Testing
Franziska Schwabe, Alina A. von Davier, and Micheline Chalhoub-Deville

Chapter 22 Testing and Assessment of Immigrants and Second-Language Learners
Thomas Oakland

Chapter 23 Indigenous Approaches to Testing and Assessment
Fanny M. Cheung and Velichko H. Fetvadjiev

Section 5: Methodological Advances

Chapter 24 Response Biases
Eunike Wetzel, Jan R. Böhnke, and Anna Brown

Chapter 25 Test Adaptations
Fons J. R. van de Vijver

Chapter 26 Multigroup Comparisons: Testing for Measurement, Structural, and Latent Mean Equivalence
Barbara M. Byrne

Chapter 27 Technology and Testing: Developments in Education, Work, and Healthcare
Stephen Stark, Jaclyn Martin, and Oleksandr S. Chernyshenko

Chapter 28 Reliability and Validity: History, Notions, Methods, Discussion
Paul De Boeck and Paula Elosua

Section 6: Problems and Challenges

Chapter 29 Ethical Standards, Guidelines, and Related Issues Pertinent to International Testing and Assessment
Thomas Oakland and Dragos Iliescu

Chapter 30 Norming
Dave Bartram and Fons J. R. van de Vijver

Chapter 31 Assessment Design for Accuracy of Scores, Meaningfulness of Interpretations and Fairness of Decision Making in High-stakes Educational Testing
Kadriye Ercikan and Avi Allalouf

Index