Education and Training

Assessment In Career Development: Formal Instruments>
Conestoga College, Kitchener Ontario.

This course provides an overview of the history, theory, nature and process of assessment and provides students with practice in using assessment tools for career counseling. Students will have the opportunity to examine the procedures for using and interpreting data from a variety of assessment inventories, and learn how to integrate assessment data in the career counseling context. Students will examine assessment tools, and apply theory they have learned related to evaluating statistical measures, the purpose of the assessment, format, administration procedures, norms, reliability, validity and interpretation of results. Ethical implications of administering psychological tests will be discussed along with the limitations and cautions related to the use of standardized tests.