Looking back, moving forward: Assessment futures in the global village / Sumaya Laher Psychological Assessment in Southern Africa / Sumaya Laher, Robert Serpell, Kayi Ntinda, and Regis Chireshe -- Psychological testing and inclusive schooling: Issues and prospects in Central Africa / Therese M. S. Tchombe, Asangha N. Muki, Melem L. Fangwi, Lambert S. Wirdze, and Ndzetar E. Wirum -- Psychological assessment in West Africa / Seth Oppong, Kwaku Oppong Asante, and Adote Anum -- Psychological assessment in the Levant / Karma El Hassan and Pia A. Zeinoun -- The history of assessment in the Nordic Countries / Sverre L. Nielsen and Dave Bartran -- Key episodes in the history of testing in Central Western Europe / Jonas W. B. Lang and Jan Corstjens -- The beginnings of psychological assessments in Spain and Portugal / Jaime Perena Brand -- Histories of psychological assessments in the United Kingdom / Dave Bertram -- The early history of psychological testing in the Eastern Europe and Russia / DragosΠIliescu, Andrei Ion, and Krunoslav Matesic -- Hearing the untold: A review of Central Asia's contribution to the expansion of psychological assessment / Mostafa Zarean and Fatemeh S. Tarighat -- History of psychological assessment in Southern Asia / Suresh Sundaram, Suresh Arumugam, and Asoke Kumar Saha -- The history of psychological testing in East Asia / Fei Huang and Mingjie Zhou -- Psychological assessment and testing in Malaysia and Singapore / Ivan M. H. Lee and N. Sheereen Zulkefly -- A brief history of testing and assessment in Oceania / John O'Gorman, Ross St George, and Peter Macqueen -- Psychological assessment in South America: Perspectives from Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru / Solange Muglia Wechsler, Marion K. Schulmeyer, Eugenia V. Vinet, and Jose Livia -- Historical development of psychological assessment in the Caribbean / Janelle N. Robinson and Michael Canute Lambert -- The history of psychological assessment in North America / Janet F. Carlson and Kurt F. Geisinger -- Looking back, moving forward: Assessment futures in the global village / Sumaya Laher
Summary:
"This book brings together chapters focusing on the history of psychological assessment in particular countries across regions from all the continents. Chapters are not just narrative accounts of the development of psychological assessment in a particular country or region. Authors were asked to situate the chapters somewhere between narrative and historiography. Hence the chapters assume a more critical stance in reporting the history of psychological assessment that recognises that history is never fact and always represents the subjective position of the author. Authors have drawn from existing sources and research but have simultaneously explored the social positionings of such research. We hope that this allows for a richer and perhaps even more interesting account of the international history of psychological assessment"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Educational and psychological testing in a global context
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