Psychological Assessment: The Aptitude Test For School Beginners

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For the past 27 years, Psychological Assessments have been committed to producing results that are important in the selection of individuals, screening and assessing (Butt, 2016) of basic and applied cognition, personality, interpersonal behavior, psychopathology, forensics, and biological psychology (Butt, 2016). This means that psychological assessments are used to provide results necessary for the above mentioned domains.
The psychological assessment of main focus in this document is the Aptitude Test for School Beginners (ASB). This is an assessment that determines whether or not a child is ready for formal education or not. It is mainly performed on school beginners or child-ren in pre-school. With that being said, the assignment will
What is a psychological assessment? ter Laak, Gokhale, and Desai (2013) defined a psychological assessment as the task of researching the differences that lie within individuals behaviours, and also applying this knowledge to a single person for interests and benefits of themselves and the society. ter Laak et al (2013) also noted that this definition applies to situations and contexts that require having the right person at the right place. Examples of such assessments are carried out in work environments for placement concerns, with regards to appointing the right candidate for a job (ter Laak et al., 2013).
Furthermore, South African authors have stated that; In South Africa, a psychological assessment test is a test that is performed with aim of it resulting in a performance of a psychological act (Foxcroft, Paterson, Roux & Herbst, 2004). This means that an as-sessment test is one that has a goal of causing a psychological act. An example of this can be a school readiness test performed on a group of grade 1 learners (Foxcroft et al., 2004). In order to determine whether or not the learners are ready, there will be some level of psychological activity from the learners. This activity can range from thinking, listening and/or responding (Foxcroft et al.,

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