Asian psychological services and assessment

Description:List About Us In the early years of testing in the Philippines, local institutions and organizations relied mainly on tests produced by foreign psychologists and educators due to a dearth of Filipino-made tests. However, available foreign-made industrial tests were normed by enterprising local psychologists and assessment experts on the Filipino examinees to reflect the culture and their way of thinking and make results fairer to the user, thus yielding better reliability and validity measures. Formed in , APSA initiated the production of culturally based personality and skills tests, as well as the norms and standards that would serve as foundation for the selection and comparison for the Filipino workers. In analyzing the assessment and testing practices in the country, APSA saw that there was also a need to help upgrade the state of local education, through assessment. It realized that the Filipino test results are extremely low in comparison with others in the world perhaps due to the lack of requisite skills and adequate development. For instance, an engineering graduate from a good local university would not qualify as an engineer abroad because he did not take up higher chemistry, and other such requisites.

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