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Review of tests in the Republic of Croatia

The state-owned Employment service is active in the Republic of Croatia, systematically publishing psychological instruments for their own needs. There are several private companies publishing psychodiagnostic instruments. Several author publishers were also present, but have ceased their acitivities following the introduction of fiscal receipts. In 2003, parliament voted in The Psychology Practice Act, upon which the Croatian Psychological Chamber was formed. Based on Article 25 of the Act, the Chamber voted in guidelines on test categorization, cataloguing tests and creating standards for psychological testing. The tests are categorized into groups A, B and C, from those available to non-psychologists to the most complex psychodiagnostic measures. Research instruments are categorized as 0 (zero). Croatian translations, adaptations and standardizations of foreign instruments from category C and some from category B are controlled by publishers of the original tests. Psychodiagnostic instruments created by domestic authors are subject to review by local experts. The American Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing by AERA, APA and NCME were translated in 1992 and in 2006 and should be considered the basis for the review of tests and journal articles about them. The Department of Psychology, University of Zadar publishers collected research scales and questionnaires in accordance with review practices used for journal articles. There is a journal founded with the aim of evaluating psychological tests, which publishes articles from other fields of psychology alongside those on tests.

Psychodiagnostic instruments ; test categorization ; research instruments

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