Welcome to the Division 8 of the NAOP
HISTORY The Executive council members 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 bestowed responsibility of this division to Debdulal Dutta Roy, as the Division Convener of Psychological Assessment. OBSERVATION The division convener observes the followings: 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 co