Intelligent Testing: Integrating Psychological Theory and Clinical Practice
Intelligent Testing: Integrating Psychological Theory and Clinical Practice
The field of intelligence testing has been revolutionized by Alan S. Kaufman. He developed the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) with David Wechsler, and his best-selling book, Intelligent Testing with the WISC-R, introduced the phrase “intelligent testing.” Kaufman, with his wife, Nadeen, then created his own series of tests: the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC), the Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement (K-TEA), the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (K-BIT), and many others. The K-ABC, the first major intelligence test to challenge the Wechsler, helped raise the bar for future tests. This book is a celebration of his life’s work, with contributions by a who’s who in IQ testing, including Bruce Bracken, Dawn Flanagan, Elaine Fletcher-Janzen, Randy Kamphaus, Nancy Mather, Steve McCallum, Jack Naglieri, Tom Oakland, Cecil Reynolds, and Robert Sternberg. The book, edited by his son James, features essays expanding on his work and ideas from former students and colleagues.
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Nenúfar said,
Wrote on September 6, 2011 @ 1:59 pm
A book of friends. A celebration volume.,
Intelligent Testing. Integrating Psychological Theory and Practice – A Tribute to Alan S. Kaufman by James Kaufman (2009, 252 pages) is what the Dutch – borrowing from Latin – call a Liber Amicorum, a Book of Friends, and the Germans – authentically – call eine Festschrift, a Celebration Volume. The book is all three. It is a tribute to the master rendered by his former students and younger colleagues, today well-known and influential psychologists in their own right, like Cecil Reynolds, Jack Naglieri, Dawn Flanagan and Elaine Fletcher-Janzen. These authors contribute to the book with original articles and research, or present historical overviews of assessement, Alan Kaufman’s outstanding role in it, controversies and how they were dealt with. It is a book written by his friends, who, without exception, highlight the influence Alan Kaufman had on them both professionally and as humans. And, third, it is a celebration of the impact Alan Kaufman’s work had and continues to have around the world, and does this exactly 30 years after the publication of his “Intelligent Testing with the WISC-R”. It is a two-layered impact: first on the field of neuropsychological assessment, quantifying interpretation without loosing sight of the clinical aspects of clinical (neuro)psychology, and second, on the many children and adults tested throughout the world who profited from this professional approach.
Both between the lines and explicitly, the contributors make this book also a tribute to Nadeen, Alan Kaufman’s spouse, colleague and test co-author. For those who have “Intelligent Testing with the WISC-R/ WISC-III” on their shelves and are interested in the person Alan Kaufman, the background and corollary of his work, I highly recommend this beautifully edited volume. What I missed in the book? A photo section depicting the master throughout his career.
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