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Interview: 'The tests are essential tools in the day-to-day professional practice of Psychology'- Ana Hernández Baeza

  • May 3rd, 2021
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“University training in Psychology does not guarantee the good use of any test for life. The tradition and institutional inertia to use certain tests (although new tests with better psychometric properties and scales are published), ignorance about new psychometric advances, or the impact of new technologies, among other issues, can lead to misuse Of the tests."

This is what the psychologist Ana Hernández Baeza affirms in the following interview that Infocop has carried out on the occasion of her recent appointment as representative of Spanish psychologists, in the Board of Assessment of the EFPA.

In addition, we remind you of the document The Use of Tests and other Research Assessment Instruments written by the International Testing Commission. This document defines tests as procedures or methods that assess the presence of a factor or phenomenon that comprises a set of items (questions, stimuli, or tasks) that are scored in a standardized way and are used to examine and possibly assess individual differences in skills. , skills, competencies, dispositions, attitudes, or emotions.