TESTING IN WESTERN EUROPETESTING IN WESTERN EUROPE
An overview from test publisher side
Conference on Psychodiagnostics Kiev, 5th December 2009
Jacopo Tarantino, Publishing Director, Giunti O.S. Organizzazioni Speciali
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The Test Publisher
• The Test Publisher (TP):1.A no-typical scientific publisher: tools instead
of contents2.Tests validity must be evidence based3.TP closely works with Research (universities)4.More like a pharma company than a book
publisher
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The Test Publisher
• Psychodiagnostics in western European countries: back home
- 1905: intelligence assessment by Binet (France)- 1921-27: personality assessment by Rorschach (Switzerland: Hans Huber)- I & II WW: test boom in US- 1947: test publishing in Austria (Schuhfried)- 1948: (new) test publishing in France (ECPA)- 1949: test publishing in Germany (Hogrefe Verlag)- 1950: test publishing in Italy (Organizzazioni Speciali)- 1957: test publishing in Spain (TEA Ediciones)- 1991: establishment of European Test Publishers Group (ETPG)
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The Test Publisher
• The ETPG- A business community for testing in Europe- Members: 23 companies and 20 countries- To promote test quality- To defend copyright and legal use of tests- To improve ethical and effective use of tests
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What is a test?
• … a measuring tool that must be:1.valid (it should measure what it pretends to
measure) and
2.reliable (measure’s outcomes should be stable)
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empirical evidence
What is a test?
• … a cultural tool that is influenced by culture. So, it must be:
1.adapted to local lingual and socio-cultural contexts (no cultural bias) and
2.standardized on the local target population (creation of local norms),
otherwise
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it doesn’t “work”
What is a test ?
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New tests published in Italy in the last 20 years
… a technique more and more used
The most used tests
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The big five in child clinical psychology (Italy: 2008)
The most used tests
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The big five in adult clinical psychology (Italy: 2008)
The most used tests
Projective techniques
Adult clinical personality
Adult no clinical personality
Adult cognitive assessment
Child cognitive assessment
Rorschach MMPI-2 16PF Raven Matrices
WISC-IV
TAT MCMI-III MBTI WAIS-III Coloured Matrices
*** *** NEO-PI-R *** WPPSI-III
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The most diffused in the world tests in each field