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Developing and Using Educational and Psychological Tests and Measures: The Unificationist Perspective
Author(s) -
ELLIS MICHAEL V.,
BLUSTEIN DAVID L.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1991.tb02640.x
Subject(s) - rubric , perspective (graphical) , test (biology) , psychology , psychological testing , personality , applied psychology , standards for educational and psychological testing , social psychology , computer science , mathematics education , clinical psychology , artificial intelligence , higher education , education theory , political science , paleontology , law , biology
This article presents a critical review of traditional testing practices and offers the unificationist perspective as the next logical step in the evolution of psychological and educational measurement. Building on the notion that any activity involving testing should be unified under the rubric of the scientific method, the unificationist view is defined and contrasted to traditional test validation strategies. Implications for test development and for the use of tests and measures in counseling (e.g., interest inventories, personality measures) are delineated from the unificationist perspective.