You must have already understood by now that assessment and appraisal processes and procedures are the means of obtaining comprehensive understanding of students thereby fulfilling the goal of counselling. The module on Assessment and Appraisal in Guidance and Counselling-II continues with some more aspects of theory and practice of assessment and appraisal.
There are four units in this module. The first unit will help you to understand the meaning of interests, aptitude and achievement as well as significance for assessment and appraisal. It also highlights the importance to integrate interest, aptitude and achievement data particularly for use in educational and career guidance and counselling.
Assessment of personality is another important area for career and personal -social counselling. The second unit would help the counsellors develop an understanding of the use of different measures of personality assessment and their role in developing a holistic picture of the student for effective counselling.
The third unit will help you understand the nature of creativity, basic assumptions and techniques to identify and assess the potential for creativity in school students.
As counselors, you would need to know how assessment data can be used for nurturing creativity. Since the ultimate goal of assessment is its proper use and application in counselling, you need to develop insight and sensitivity in judicious selection and use of tools in gathering ability, aptitude, interests and personality data and for skillful application of such data. The fourth unit therefore will equip you to properly interpret, communicate, report and integrate appraisal data for counselling. Your competencies towards the end will be further strengthened during 'Practicum in Psychological Assessment'.
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