Psychological Assessment (Reading)

• Psychological testing - involves systematic measurement and evaluation of a person's psychological attributes to gain insights about a person's mental functioning.
• It assesses aspects of human psychology such as; cognitive abilities, personality traits, emotional state, and mental health conditioning.
• Psychological test also has standardized procedure and scoring guidelines to ensure consistency and objectivity of the assessment process.
• Test is a tool or instrument that is used for collecting data of a person's psychological attributes.
• Components of a test are : questions or stimuli, responses, scoring, and interpretation.
• Questions and stimuli can be given as questions, images, scenarios and statements that will elicit certain responses.
• Pen & paper


  Physical materials such as questionnaires, answer sheets, scoring guides
• Pen & paper tests


  • Multiple choice
  • Personality test
• Computer-based


  Tests administered through computers
• Computer-based tests


  • Efficient scoring
  • Adaptive testing
  • Immediate feedback
• Responses can be through forms of answering questions whether written or verbal or it can be base on the answers given
• Responses can be through performance depending on the given stimuli or question
• Scoring is done through predetermined guidelines.
• Scoring also involves assigning numerical values, categorizing responses, and using qualitative assessments to interpret the content of the response.
• Interpretations are the conclusions that are drawn from the data about a person's psychological attributes.
• Interpretations are guided by established norms, analytical analyses, and expert judgement.
• Oral test are administered orally, especially in clinical and interview settings. This allows real time interactions and clarifying questions.
• Performance based test are test that are performed rather than answering questions. Such examples are Dexterity test where individuals manipulate objects or it can be role-playing to test an individuals social skills.