In this section we will be providing a pdf of a randomly selected educational or occupational article from the current edition of Assessment & Development Matters (ADM)

The article selected from the Summer 2010 edition is Dyscalculia: A practitioner's view, by Clare Trott.

 Dyscalculia - A practitioner's view.pdf

ADM is mailed out quarterly to all qualified testers with a current annual entry on the Register of Competence in Psychological Testing.

Alternatively, e-copies of  ADM can be purchased through the BPS Shop

Look out for our  next posting from the autumn edition of ADM at the end of September 2010.

Dave Bartram and Pat Lindley from the Society's Steering Committee on Test Standards review the development of Society test user qualifications since their inception and present the new approach to test user qualification which the Society will launch in 2010.

 Delivering standards for tests and testing.pdf

This article  was first published in The Psychologist, Vol. 23 No.3, March 2010 and is published by The British Psychological Society-  see http://www.thepsychologist.org.uk/about/about_home.cfm

A comparison of the WRIT Verbal Analogies test and the WAIS-III (UK Edition) Similarities sub-test: Implications for diagnostic assessment

 by David Grant

This article first appeared in Assessment & Development Matters, Volume 1, No. 4 (Winter 2009) and is posted here with the addition of two profiles showing the different results for an anonymous individual based on the two different tests.

 Implications for diagnostic assessment.pdf

Changes to Level A and B guidance

Derailers and Personality by Gillian Hyde

This article first appeared in Assessment & Development Matters (Volume 1. No.3 Autumn 2009) The online article features addtional tables presenting the scales and correlation matrix for the HDS and OPQ32i.

 WEB EXTRA Derailers and Personality.pdf

Have you been trained in the use of a personality instrument?

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You will need to print off an application form and send it to your Assessor to sign. Then mail it back to us with the appropriate payment which you will find on the Applicant's Schedule of Fees.

Please note that we have a policy of accepting applications within 12 months of the date from which training delegates have been signed off in all units by their Assessor as a competent test user.

This list of useful terms relates to the field of testing in organisational and work settings.

   List of Useful Terms.pdf

Please note further use of this list is subject to copyright restrictions.

The structure of work effectiveness by Rainer Kurz, Peter Saville & Rab MacIver

A shorter version of this article without all the embedded tables was first published in volume 1, edition 1 of Assessment & Development Matters.

 Structure of Work Effectiveness Article ADM 2009.pdf 

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In March 2009 we re-launched our member magazine. It is now Assessment & Development Matters.
Focusing on assessment & development in the educational and occupational fields this practitioner-focused magazine aims to deliver the latest information on testing matters.

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