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As each chapter of this book has been designed to provide specific information regarding assessment devices that could or would be used for the diagnosis and evaluation of treatment effectiveness, this chapter will not address the issue of what standardized tests may be used in the assessment of specific disorders. Rather, this chapter has been designed to present a critical view of the use of standardized tests to diagnose childhood psychopathology and to aid in the evaluation of treatment effectiveness.
Using tests in the interests of children requires knowing why we are testing and what we want to know. The problem is to ask the right questions about the right construct and, of course, to make the proper inferences from what we observe on tests. (Scarr, 1981, p. 1160)
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DiLorenzo, T.M. (1987). Standardized and Projective Tests. In: Frame, C.L., Matson, J.L. (eds) Handbook of Assessment in Childhood Psychopathology. Applied Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0041-8_4
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