Measurement does not take place in a legal vacuum: Ideas regarding regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Medical Devices.

European Journal of Psychological Assessment, Vol 39(2), 2023, 79-84; doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000764The set of rules to evaluate complex information is specified in several standards which have been developed over decades. For example, the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations’ review model of psychological and educational tests (EFPA Board of Assessment, 2013) or the American Psychological Associations Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (AERA, APA, & NMCE, 2014) contain guidelines to evaluate the information supporting a test score interpretation. To guarantee the quality of the actual diagnostic process tests are used in, specific norms, guidelines, or standards have been released nationally (e.g., in Germany the DIN 33430, 2016; or in the Netherlands as described in Evers et al., 2010; or by the British Psychological Society as described in Lindley & Bartram, 2012; or in Spain as described in Muñiz et al., 2011) and international (e.g., ISO, 2020) contexts. Herein, the accumulated scientific knowledge as well as practical considerations are summarized. All of these examples show the length the assessment community has gone to in order to ensure that measurement instruments and the actual diagnostic process involving those instruments are of high quality. In fact, these guidelines (or similar documents) probably belong to the success stories of our science when it comes to establishing standards and transferring them into good practice. How...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research