Assessor (psychology)
Assessors are individuals who observe the participants psychological procedures (Assessees) and / or their products or behaviors evaluate and possibly also the performance of the test or of the assessments ( Engl. Assessment "assessment") are derived. The term is often used synonymously with "observer" and "assessor". Assessors can be psychologists , recruiters , supervisors , peers or trained persons.
The use of the term in the field of organizational psychology probably goes hand in hand with the emergence of assessment centers in the 1930s, while in learning psychology in German-speaking countries it is probably associated with the increasing research on peer assessments and self-assessments since the 1990s .
Differentiation from other terms
There are also assessors in connection with job and service titles, see assessor .
See also
- Experimental psychology
- Management audit
- Development Center
- Potential analysis
- educational Psychology
- Educational research
Individual evidence
- ↑ Example: Willi Stehle, Heinz Schuler (Hrsg.): Psychology in economy and administration. Practical experience with organizational psychological concepts . Poeschel, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 978-3-7910-0273-6 .
- ↑ cf. Search list for the term in Google Scholar. Retrieved September 28, 2017 .