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    <title>Introduction to psychological assessment in the South African context</title>
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    <title>Psychological assessment in the South African context</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Foxcroft, Cheryl</namePart>
    <role>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>De Kock, Francois</namePart>
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    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2023</dateIssued>
    <edition>Sixth edition.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xviii, 510 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>An overview of assessment : definition and scope -- Psychological assessment : a brief retrospective overview -- Basic measurement and statistical concepts -- Reliability : basic concepts and measures -- Validity : basic concepts and measures -- Developing a psychological measure -- Cross cultural test adaptation, translation and tests in multiple languages -- The practice of psychological assessment : controlling the use of measures, competing values, and ethical practice standards -- Administering psychological assessment measures -- Assessment of cognitive functioning -- Measures of well-being -- Personality assessment -- Career-counselling assessment -- Technology-based assessment -- The use of assessment measures in various applied contexts -- Interpreting and reporting assessment results -- Factors affecting assessment results -- On the road to culturally meaningful psychological assessment in South Africa.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Cheryl Foxcroft, Francois de Kock.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
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    <topic>Psychometrics</topic>
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    <topic>Psychological tests</topic>
    <geographic>South Africa</geographic>
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  <subject authority="rvm">
    <topic>Psychométrie</topic>
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  <subject authority="rvm">
    <topic>Tests psychologiques</topic>
    <geographic>Afrique du Sud</geographic>
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  <classification authority="ddc" edition="23/eng/20240417">150.28/70968</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780190746728</identifier>
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