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

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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

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The big five in I/O 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

Hot topics

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As constructs

Hot topics

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As techniques

Thank you!

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