Assessments

Few facts about assessment:

1. Assessment centres have been recommended at least 1,500 yrs ago in India in Kautilya’s Arthashastra!!

2. Early application of assessments can be traced back to German Military Assessment Program developed for the German Army.

3. Assessment as a science began in 1886-89.

4. The first Psychometric Centre was set up in Cambridge University by James McKeen Cattell in 1886-89.

5. The first Psychometric instruments were designed to measure Intelligence.

6. L.L.Thurstone is the first President and the founder of Psychometric society in 1936.

7. Sir Francis Galton is called as the Father of Psychometrics.

8. First major book on Psychometric methods was written by Guilford.