The Undertaking AID (Adaptive Intelligence Diagnosticum)
This book addresses the intelligence test-battery AID (Adaptive Intel- ligence Diagnosticum; Kubinger, 2017; Kubinger & Holocher-Benetka, 2023). As a supplement to the respective manuals, it emphasizes the underlying mindset of that test-battery with regard to its intended practical use. In particular, it aims to illuminate a test taker’s cognitive risk factors, protective factors, and developmental-promoting factors, thereby supporting enhancement-oriented assessment – including the potential for a screening with regard to hypothesizing some specific learning disorders/ partial performance weaknesses. The book provides vital support to the AID manuals. On the one hand, it is designed for readers who are already familiar with the AID and experienced in its application, but who seek more detailed, in-depth considerations such as typical problems that can be solved and initial approaches to diagnosis-specific support programs. On the other hand, it is equally useful to newcomers: after reading it, they may feel encourged to integrate the AID into their counseling practice,
recognizing the distinct advantages of this intelligence test-battery.
Prof. Klaus D. Kubinger, born in 1949, has served as Professor of Psychological Assessment at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna (Austria). He received the academic title Dr. phil. (“Doctor of Philosophy”, comparable to a Ph.D.) in Psychology in 1973, and the academic title Mag. rer. soc. oec. (“Magister der Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften”, comparable to a M.Sc.) in Statistics in 1989, both in Vienna. He retired 2012. Until then, he headed the Division of Psychological Assessment and Applied Psychometrics to which a Centre of Testing and Consulting was affiliated. Since the retirement, he has continued to lecture at the Universities of Vienna, Salzburg, Klagenfurt, and Hamburg. In addition to publishing more than 100 papers in international scientific journals and developing several widely used psychological tests (e.g., the Adaptive Intelligence Diagnosticum, latest edition 2023) he has authored or edited in particular the following books: Modern Psychometrics – A brief survey with recent contributions (ed., 1989, in German); Statistics for Psychologists (2011, in German and English; co-author D. Rasch and T. Yanagida); Psychological Assessment – Theory and Practice (latest edition 2019, in German); Psychological Assessment: Illustrations of Consulting (ed., latest edition 2021; co-author T. M. Ortner). He received the Alfred-Binet Award from the German Scientific Society of Psychology in 2007, the EAPA Award from the European Association of Psychological Assessment in 2009, and in 2010 the Award for his Life’s Work on Computerized Testing from the German Scientific Society of Psychology.
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