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The EFPA Standing Committee on Tests and Testing (SCTT) has been active in the development of standards relating to tests and test use in Europe for more than a decade. This paper summarizes the work of the SCTT with a particular focus on the development of its Test Review Model and its standards for test use. The latter are now being developed as the basis for a special post-EuroPsy qualification. The SCTT members have also been involved in the developments of the ISO 10667 and through this we have seen how members of the profession can have a major influence on standards that are designed for the wider community of assessors and test users rather than just focused on the needs of psychologists. EFPA needs to take an outward-looking approach if it is to cover all the ways in which psychology has an influence on society.

The paper outlines the development of employment-led qualifications in the UK. These qualifications have been based upon a notion of competence at work, defined in terms of standards developed using a functional approach to occupational analysis. While initial developments focused on standards development and the design of qualification at "lower levels", there has been increasing interest in extending the approach to the analysis of higher level professional, technical and managerial occupations. The paper reports the work being carried out by the British Psychological Society on the development of occupational standards for applied psychology and reports on some of the key issues emerging from this project. These include the problem of identifying and specifying the knowledge, understanding and skills required for competence at work and the relationship between the criteria for the award of qualifications and those related to entry into a profession as a practitioner.

Abstract. Tests constitute one of the techniques most widely used by psychologists for assessment, evaluation, decision-making, and diagnosis. Like any other scientific technique, tests can be used correctly or incorrectly. Given increasing globalization and ease of communication, the use of tests in international contexts is becoming more and more frequent, and this raises new problems. With the aim of improving the construction and correct use of tests in the international context, different national and international organizations have developed a range of strategies. In this work we present the projects and activities developed in recent years by the International Test Commission (ITC) and the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations (EFPA) for improving test practice on an international level. First of all we present a project whose aim is to survey the opinion of European professionals on tests. This is followed by a description of the EFPA model for the technical review of tests, before we move on to descriptions of the ITC Guidelines on Test Adaptation, on Test Use, and on Computer-based and Internet-delivered tests. Finally, we present the EFPA-EAWOP (The European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology) guidelines for the use of tests in the field of work and organizations. After discussing the six projects, we analyze the future perspectives of psychological and educational assessment, placing special emphasis on the influence of IT and multimedia developments. We highlight certain areas that seem highly likely to attract the attention of researchers and professionals in psychological and educational assessment in the near future.