APPLIED PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS IN EDUCATION

Abubakar, Hussaini Yoffo

Department of Psychology

Federal College of Education, Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria.

E-mail: abubakarhussaini121@gmail.com

Abstract: The paper sought to highlight psychological test and describe it as a systematic procedure for measuring sample of people’s behaviour. This paper equally identified various types of psychological tests like intelligence tests, personality tests interest, and attitude achievement tests amongst others. The paper also looked at the strength of psychological test which include prediction selection and classification. The paper identified anxiety and stress amongst others as limitation of psychological tests. The paper recommends that teachers, counselors and parents should be acquaintance with the current psychological tests in order to understand references to the use of such tests in the psychological literature.