PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT: THINKING INNOVATIVELY IN CONTEXTS OF DIVERSITY

Abstract

Psychometric assessments in South Africa have been marred by controversy. Not only has the discipline of psychology been accused of being complicit with the apartheid regime, but some even argue that in post-apartheid South Africa psychology continues to maintain structural legacies introduced by apartheid (Suffla & Seedat, 2004). The book Psychological Assessment: Thinking innovatively in contexts of diversity attempts to grapple with these historical matters and how they affect psychometric practice in South Africa. The current text does this candidly without burying the reader in a heap of psychometric jargon.