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Assessment has had an important place in the history of career counseling.
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Assessment has had an important place in the history of career counseling. The trait-and-factor approach relied heavily on matching the requirements of an occupation with the individual's characteristics. The Minnesota group among others developed many tests to help simplify the process, such as the Minnesota spatial relation test, Minnesota clerical test and the Minnesota rate of manipulation test. The creation of many tests was stimulated by the career counseling movement. Group intelligence tests became widely used in the schools, business and industry because of the success of Army Alpher and Army Beta examination during world war I. World war II stimulated the used of multiaptitide tests. It was then tests was reevaluated and issues such as cultural and gender bias and the validity of test for the situation they were used. At present assessment has ventured into new directions, one is in the used of the computer. There are many...
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