An overview of assessment: Definition and scope -- Psychological assessment: A brief retrospective overview -- Basic measurement and scaling concepts -- Reliability: Basic concepts and measures -- Validity: Basic concepts and measures -- Developing a measure -- Cross cultural test adaptation, translation and test in multple languages -- The practice of psychological assessment: controlling the use of measures, competing values, and ethical practice standards -- Administering psychological assessment measures -- Assessment of cognitive functioning -- Measures of well-being -- Personality assessment -- Career counselling assessment -- Computer-based and Internet-delivered assessment -- The use of assessment measures in various applied contexts -- Interpreting and reporting assessment results -- Factors affecting assessment results -- What the future holds for psychological assessment.