Evidence-based Psychological Assessment

Dragos Iliescu

2018

Abstract

Testing and assessment is possibly the single most influential contribution of psychology to the repertoire of scientific methods. But testing and assessment has evolved in meandering and not always straightforward ways during the past 100 years, combining today a number of extremely modern approaches, but being also tributary to historical artefacts that cannot be considered up to par with scientific requirements. In the same way in which we promote today an evidential basis in those areas of psychology that are dedicated to interventions (e.g., evidence-based psychotherapeutical interventions, evidence-based management), we should promote an evidential basis in psychological testing and assessment. This lecture will concentrate on the definition of evidence-based assessment, will discuss the different ways in which evidence-based assessment may be approached in clinical, educational and work psychology, and will finally focus on a number of utility analyses related to evidence-based psychological assessment, as opposed to more traditional methods of assessment that do not always have an empirical basis. This article was presented as Keynote Lecture for the International Conference of Psychotechnology (ICOP) being held in on 5-6 September 2018 at Bina Nusantara University (BINUS) - Alam Sutra Campus, South Tangerang, Indonesia.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Iliescu D. (2018). Evidence-based Psychological Assessment. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC, ISBN 978-989-758-515-9, pages 50-52. DOI: 10.5220/0009999800002917

in Bibtex Style

@conference{binus-jic18,
author={Dragos Iliescu},
title={Evidence-based Psychological Assessment},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC,},
year={2018},
pages={50-52},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009999800002917},
isbn={978-989-758-515-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC,
TI - Evidence-based Psychological Assessment
SN - 978-989-758-515-9
AU - Iliescu D.
PY - 2018
SP - 50
EP - 52
DO - 10.5220/0009999800002917