Interactive Assessment
The terms interactive and dynamic would never have been associated with psychological and psychoeducational assessment a generation ago. They have currency now because of widespread dissatisfaction with the normative, standardized testing model, criticism
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Series Editors
H. Carl Haywood David Tzuriel Editors
Interactive Assessment With 20 Illustrations
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H. Cari Haywood, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA David Tzuriel, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52 900, Israel Series Editors: Ronald L. Taylor and Les Sternberg, Exceptional Student Education, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991, USA
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Interactive assessment 1 (edited by) H. Cari Haywood, David Tzuriel. p. cm.-(Disorders of human learning, behavior, and communication) lncludes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4612-8753-7 ISBN 978-1-4612-4392-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4612-4392-2 1. Behavioral assessment. 1931-. Il. Tzuriel, David. BF176.5.157 1991 153.9'3-dc20
2. Psychological tests. III. Series.
1. Haywood, H. Cari,
91-21039
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Preface
The terms interactive and dynamic would never have been associated with psychological and psychoeducational assessment a generation ago. They have currency now because of widespread dissatisfaction with the normative, standardized testing model, criticism of theoretical concepts of intelligence, recognition of abuses of standardized intelligence testing, and frustration with prediction and classification as primary goals of assessment. It is almost certainly true that public policy concerns propel scientific activity far more often than science propels public policy! In the case of psychological assessment, public policy concerns have arisen in the last 20 years primarily around issues of possible "discrimination" against members of ethnic minorities. At the same time, there has been a resurgence of dedication to "excellence in education" goals. These concerns have led to such extreme measures as prohibition of the use of standardized intelligence tests to determine school placement decisions, especially for minority children. They have led also to a search for alternatives to standardized, n
