Process Assessment: A Model for Broadening Assessment

Abstract

Process assessment is offered as an alternative frame of reference for conducting psychoeducational assessment. Underlying issues such as the assessment-intervention link, nondiscriminatory assessment, and the assessment-environment link, provide the basic rationale for an approach that emphasizes the process of generating and testing hypotheses during assessment. The research base is presented, as well as a specific model that focuses assessment on the characteristics of the task, the child, and the setting, as well as the interactions between these three factors.