My vision about Psychological Assessment
It is my pleasure to inform you that National Academy of Psychology (NAOP) bestowed upon me the responsibility of division convener of the Psychological Assessment.
Dear Distinguished Professors of NAOP
I am grateful to Professor Suar for selecting my name as the convener of Psychological Assessment of NAOP. Below are my few observations about problems of Indian Psychological Assessment.
1. Dependency on foreign test materials.
2. Failure to tap Indian scenario in assessment of psychological construct. This happens due to overemphasis on psychological constructs conceptualized by the Non-Indians.
3. Over emphasis on hypothesis driven, experimentally controlled structured data rather on data driven, minimal controlled by researcher and randomized unstructured data.
4. Over emphasis on statistical software disregarding assessment of data quality or data fit with required statistics.
5. Relating to focused area, researchers paid less focus on scheduled tribes, untouchables, people under poverty and unorganized labor force like agricultural farmers.
6. Priority on experimental research specially on cognitive abilities rather on social experimental psychology to explore social cognition.
7. Emphasis on assessing structured rather unstructured variable like performing arts.
As the convener, I want to do followings
1. Emphasis on human resource development for mixed pedagogy research. Here mixed pedagogy includes two areas
1a) Qualitative and Quantitative data generation, analysis and knowledge discovery
1b) Hypothesis and data driven structured, unstructured, non random and random data analysis and discovery of knowledge.
Recently, I coined the term psychoinformatics in Psychological Research. Psycho-informatics comprises four disciplines - computer sciences, information sciences, statistics and psychology and allied sciences.
It has been accepted by the International conference on Measuring behaviour held in Netherlands. Please look at the URL:
I conducted workshop on psychoinformatics in Nepal, Pakistan and recently in Kolkata with the support of Indian Institute of Psychometry, Indian Statistical Institute and Indian Academy of Applied Psychology. Vide the URL
2. Encourage writing book on fundamental tools of psychological assessment in different languages so that researchers across North, west, southern, east and north-eastern states can understand and can develop local dialect and culture based psychological construct.
3. Encourage researchers to write computer programs so that they will not depend on others and will be self-efficacious in research.
4. Will create online tutorial to know about research methodology. I personally developed one in the facebook. Vide the site:
5. Will relate psychological assessment with other disciplines of social sciences. In this connection, I have done few researches on public finance. Now, I am the member of the Governing council of the Insurance Information Bureau of India.
My vision is that Indian Psychologists will be self-efficacious in Psychological Assessment. They will unearth the Indian cultures to explore psychological constructs in order to uplift the Indian Society at large through psychological researches. This will help us to involve in the policy formulation of the Government.
Please suggest me any other areas on which I can contribute as the convener of psychological assessment.
I solicit your kind co-operation .
Thanking you
With regards
D. Dutta Roy
The Division of psychological Assessment is concerned with promoting high standards research in Psychology. It aims at the following issues:
a) Organizing training for psychological test construction.
b) Encouraging regional level meetings with a view to promote psychological assessment relevant for formulating policies of the Government of India.
c) To establish and maintain liaison and cooperate with national as well as international Associations in matters of academic as well as professional matters.
Indigenous psychology constructs
- To promote quality of teaching and training for research in psychology and to foster training for growth of psychology as a science as well as profession.
- To arrange for publication of one or more journals, with a view to publishing psychological researches carried out in this country and abroad, of such a standard that is comparable to any prestigious journal of Psychology.
- To encourage holding of regional and national meetings of active committed psychologists with a view to promoting critical discussions on psychological issues of local and/or national relevance.
- To establish and maintain liaison with state as well Central Governments, industrial organizations and other institutes and Departments with a view to enhancing employment and other service opportunities for psychologists and to be actively involved in the applied aspects of Psychology.
- To endeavor for the establishment of a National Council of Psychological Research and Training for promoting the growth, and safeguarding the interests of Psychology in India .
- To establish and maintain liaison and cooperate with national as well as international Associations in matters of academic as well as professional matters.
- To identify and honor psychologists for their outstanding contributions to psychological research and/or professional effectiveness and to invite them to serve as fellows of the Academy.
- To endeavor for high ethical standards in teaching, research and professional services.
- To carry out such other functions as may be deemed necessary from time to time by the members of the Academy.
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The Ec of NAOP held on 10/12/2012 at Christ University,
Bangalore decided to bring out theme based publication periodically. It also
decided that each division should have at least one significant activity in a
calendar year (during annual convention of NAOP). Each division may plan a symposium
and call for papers in July, six months before the annual convention and
publish theme as a book by a reputed publisher to ensure quality.
The members suggested the name of Shri. Debdulal Dutta Roy,
as the Division Convener of Psychological Assessment.
Welcome to the
division VIII of the NAOP
The mission of the division VIII is to support and advance the
science and practice of psychological assessment and to expand its scope of
application and contribution to society at large in order to improve the
quality of working life. Division VIII envisages following functions.
1.
To organise and sponsor different symposiums,
workshops, seminars and round tables on issues of psychological assessment at
regional and national conventions.
2.
To offer electronic news letter with the current
development and news.
3.
To develop e- circle or listserv in order to
discuss, announce and report about activities of the division.
4.
To foster and to promote psychological
assessment across all the states of India. For the same it will make alliance
with regional institutes and NGO’s.
5.
To establish and maintain liaison with State as
well as Central Government , industrial organisation and institutes and
departments with a view to enhancing employment and other service opportunities
for psychologists and to be actively involved in the psychological assessment
and application.
6.
To establish and maintain liaison and co-operate
with national as well as international associations in matters of academic as
well as professional matters.
7.
To endeavour for high ethical standard in
teaching, research and professional services in psychological assessment.
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